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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:50:25 +0100 From: Bruno Prémont <bruno.premont@...tena.lu> To: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Stefan Winter <stefan.winter@...tena.lu> Subject: Re: [2.6.27.4-5 stable regressions] Kernel boot early crash with low-64k reservation patches On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 07:36:54 -0800 Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 08:34:40AM +0100, Bruno Prémont wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On a VMWare (ESX 3.5.0 Update 3) guest we get boot failure at the > > very beginning of boot process. (Boot successful with 2.6.27.4, > > failing with 2.6.27.x where x > 4 or just adding the 5 patches > > below to 2.6.27.4) > > > > State of config option > > CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K=y > > or > > # CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K not set > > does not make any difference. > > Does the 2.6.27.8 kernel work better for you, or does it also fail? > > Also, have you tried the 2.6.28-rc releases to see if the problem is > also there? > > thanks, > > greg k-h Any stable release after 2.6.27.4 is bad (that is 2.6.27.5, 2.6.27.6, 2.6.27.8 -- 2.6.27.7 has not been tested), they all produce the same (not verified exact register/stack values) result. We have not tried any 2.6.28-rc kernels yet. Bruno -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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