Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: failure to boot on HP nx6325, no sound when booted, USB-related WARNING

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 19:35 -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> > > (Btw, the above commit message points to just my response with a testing 
> > > patch to the real email: the actual explanation of the INSANE ordering is 
> > > from Len Brown in
> > > 
> > > 	https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2006-November/004161.html
> > > 
> > > and there Len claims that we *must* wake up CPU's early).
> > 
> > ..and points to commit 1a38416cea8ac801ae8f261074721f35317613dc which in 
> > turn talks about http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5651 
> > 
> > Howerver, it seems that bugzilla entry may just be bogus. It talks about 
> > "it appears that some firmware in the future may depend on that sequence 
> > for correction operation"
> > 
> > Len, Shaohua, what are the real issues here? 
> 
> Intel's reference BIOS for Core Duo performs some re-initialization
> in _WAK that will get blow away if INIT follows _WAK.
> IIR, it is related to re-initializing the thermal sensors.
> I opened bug 5651 when the BIOS team informed me of this issue.
> 
> Yes, bringing a processor offline and then online again w/o
> an intervening suspend or reset would not evaluate _WAK,
> and thus may still run into the issue.

If this is true, then we should disable the sys/..../cpu/online entry
right away.

	tglx