linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

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Date:	Sat, 2 Dec 2006 17:29:28 -0500
From:	Ed Tomlinson <edt@....ca>
To:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com,
	Matt_Domsch@...l.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

On Friday 01 December 2006 23:09, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:19:00PM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> > On Friday 01 December 2006 19:32, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 19:33:21 -0500
> > > Ed Tomlinson <edt@....ca> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I booted without the video and vga settings with earlyprintk=vga and got output.  The
> > > > kenerl was complaining about a crc error.  Checking the patch list I found:
> > > > 
> > > > crc32-replace-bitreverse-by-bitrev32.patch
> > > > 
> > > > reversing this patch fixes booting here.
> > > 
> > > Odd that you're the only person seeing this - could be a miscompile?
> > 
> > I recompiled four times.  The only change the last time was to reverse the above patch.  I am using
> > gcc is 4.1.1 (gentoo 4.1.1-r1).
> >  
> 
> Can you try build and boot with that patch again?
> I expected there is not any logical changes in that patch. So I want to
> make sure it.

I rebuilt twice.  Once after just appling the patch (eg no make clean) and once with a make clean.
Both kernels booted fine.  

No idea what triggered the crc problems above...

Sorry for the noise,
Ed
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