linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 ppc64 boot hang

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Date:	Thu, 6 Mar 2008 10:17:22 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...il.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ian.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 ppc64 boot hang

Hi Andrew,

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:54:25 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> The semaphore consolidation code enables interrupts early in boot, when it
> shouldn't.  This tends to make powerpc blow up.  Could be that this is what
> you're hitting.
> 
> Matthew, is this ging to be fixed soon?

There is a new version of these patches in the current linux-next tree ...

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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