several discrepancies with new -2139 kernel.

[Chong Yu Meng]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 19:00 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 6/27/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> > I believe one item is fixed, I was getting nuisance messages in the
> > messages file from the builtin lightscribe drive, and a tail -f on it
> > doesn't show them so far since it did an auto powerdown after the bios
> > flash.  Duh, too soon, just got one:
> >
> > diablo kernel: hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason =
> > 0x01)
> >
> > and I see this stanza in the messages file is still there.  Someone said
> > it looked like a bios problem...
> >
> > Jun 27 21:18:08 diablo kernel: Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/
> > irqpoll noapic noapci pci=assign-busses lapic
> > Jun 27 21:18:08 diablo smartd[1861]: smartd has fork()ed into background
> > mode. New PID=1861.
> > Jun 27 21:18:08 diablo kernel: Misrouted IRQ fixup and polling support
> > enabled
> > Jun 27 21:18:08 diablo kernel: This may significantly impact system
> > performance
> >
> > But I'm wondering if it might be related to that long string of kernel
> > arguments it took to get it to boot FC5 originally?  Does this tell us
> > one or more of those "irqpoll noapic noapci pci=assign-busses lapic"
> > should be removed?
> 
> I dont' think noacpi is a valid kernel parameter, so that one did
> nothing.  noapic can certainly cause all kinds of problems on some
> systems, and almost always results in a performance hit.  The other
> options may or may not have caused problems.  Why did you use all of
> those options initially?

Hi Lonni,

Actually, "noacpi" is a valid parameter that I used to use to boot my
Thinkpad. But I am not familiar with "noapci" ;) 

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