linux-kernel - Re: initrd panic

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Message-ID: <86802c440901071527k278b35e9y12902ed8944fc7ab@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:27:18 -0800
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: initrd panic

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> wonder if LZMA B2ZIP etc into tip/master today broke it?
>>>> you enabled:
>>>>
>>>>  CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA=y
>>>>  CONFIG_RD_LZMA=y
>>> no
>>>> ? Or did the normal zlib decompressor break?
>>> looks like
>>>
>>
>> What is the configuration like?
>>
>> The zlib compressor is different code, but it is the code already used
>> by all the other kernel modules, so unless there is a bug in the wrapper
>> code it seems unlikely.
>>
>>     -hpa
>
> the initrd is 16M initrd.gz that contents are copied from opensuse 11.1 rescue ...
>
> it does work with tip before today.
> also todays linus tree works too.

reverting 10 patchs from x86/setup-lzma make it work again.

YH
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