linux-kernel - Re: Wierdness - linux-next KVM patch breaks Dell Latitude D820, KVM not in kernel

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Date:	Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:50:09 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Beth Kon <eak@...ibm.com>, rostedt@...dmis.org, avi@...hat.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wierdness - linux-next KVM patch breaks Dell Latitude D820, KVM not in kernel

On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:07:07 EDT, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu said:

> Symptoms: Dell Latitude D820 either hangs at very early boot (before
> any output, not even penguins), or (apparently) triple-faults into an
> immediate reboot.  linux-2.6.31-rc7-mmotm0827 works fine, so whatever the
> real issue is, it hit linux-next between then and when Andrew pulled for
> -0902.  Since I was feeling lazy, I told 'git bisect' that 2.6.31-rc7 was
> good and HEAD was bad.

Whatever it was, I can no longer replicate it with 2.6.31-mmotm0917, so it
looks like some maintainer merged the fix for whatever it was.  File
this one under "things that go bump in the night", I guess...

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