linux-kernel - Re: kexec refuses to boot latest -mm

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Date:	Fri, 4 Jan 2008 21:24:15 +0530
From:	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, hbabu@...ibm.com,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, maneesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: kexec refuses to boot latest -mm

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 05:58:16PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 10:42:00PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Thursday, 3 of January 2008, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:08:43AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 11:11:13AM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 09:27:39AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 06:15:32PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi Vivek,
> > > > > > > 
> 
> I've no clue what I managed to do wrong last night, probably tried to boot
> 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 thinking it was 2.6.24-rc6. 2.6.24-rc6 boots, but -mm
> does not. Sorry for the noise.
> 

So I went ahead and bisected -mm, and the culprit is git-x86. It boots
fine before it, but with git-x86 applied, it fails to boot.

Ingo/Thomas, could you please point me to the git-x86 tree so that I can
bisect it? (with instructions on how to pull the -mm branch, I managed
to pull the master branch, but not the -mm branch)

-- 
regards,
Dhaval
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