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Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:51:23 -0700 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@...Princeton.EDU> Cc: stable@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, suresh.b.siddha@...el.com Subject: Re: [stable] Boot failure with 2.6.27.46 on Xeon E5620 (Westmere EP) On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 04:32:16PM -0400, "S.Çağlar Onur" wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On May 25, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:10:28AM -0400, "S.Çağlar Onur" wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> We are observing boot failures [1] & [2] on some of our servers (Dell > >> r410) with 2.6.27-stable kernels. I found following commit in upstream > >> tree via a quick search (but I haven't tried it yet) so I don't know > >> whether I'm on the right track or not. > >> > >> Please let me know if anything else is needed... > > > > Has any .27 kernel worked on these machines? If so, can you narrow it > > down to the patch that caused the problem? > > I don't think any .27 kernel worked on those machines before. But in > any case I'll try (I don't have a physical access to those machines as > they are located in China) an older .27 release to see. Ok, so it isn't a regression, which is what I want to know. New hardware like this, probably will only work on newer kernel versions, so please use those instead :) thanks, greg k-h -- 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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