linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1: boot failure under qemu

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 11:52:59 -0700
From:	"Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@...il.com>
To:	"Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1: boot failure under qemu

On 5/16/07, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Okay, I've established that this is a bug in the Qemu kernel loader: the
> > Qemu loader puts zero in the loadflags, which is wrong no matter how you
> > slice it.
> >
> > I have checked in a workaround in the git.newsetup tree; the workaround
> > is to rely on a compile-time value for load low/load high instead of
> > looking at loadflags.
> >
>
> Can you post a patch to try?

You can snag it from gitweb:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-newsetup.git;a=commit;h=a1608be536b7e60362923c5bdc9f3ab3ddd27ee5

The patch itself:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-newsetup.git;a=commitdiff;h=a1608be536b7e60362923c5bdc9f3ab3ddd27ee5;hp=92d07d79f86a778f253001a7cf0758b49f39eb77

Thanks,
Nish
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