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Message-ID: <alpine.SOC.1.00.1205222217070.27144@math.ut.ee>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 22:17:57 +0300 (EEST)
From: Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.4.0-02580-g72c04af regression on sparc64 - partitions not
recognized
> > Just tested 3.4.0-02580-g72c04af on about 10 machines. While most of
> > them work (including 3 different sparc64 machines with real scsi disks),
> > Sun Netra X1 with pata_ali and IDE disk consistently fails to boot. sda
> > is recognized but no partitions. 3.3.0 works fine, as did something
> > around 3.4-rc7 (plain 3.4 not tested yet). No other IDE machines tested
> > yet since I have none with remote console at the moment.
>
> 3.4-rc7 until 72c04af is about 3500 changes, we'll need to narrow this
> down further.
>
> I would first check to make sure that 3.4.0-final doesn't have the
> problem.
>
> If 3.4.0-final is OK, start bisecting from v3.4.0 until 72c04af. One
> possibility could be the sparc64 NOBOOTMEM conversion that went into
> the merge window.
Meanwhile tested that 3.4 was OK and started bisecting. It will take
time because I can access the system only some iterations per day.
--
Meelis Roos (mroos@...ux.ee)
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