linux-kernel - Re: [ 60/76] drm/nouveau/bios: fix shadowing of ACPI ROMs larger than 64KiB

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Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:48:07 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Heinz Diehl <htd@...cy-poultry.org>,
	Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [ 60/76] drm/nouveau/bios: fix shadowing of ACPI ROMs larger
 than 64KiB

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 06:01:03PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 19.10.2012, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: 
> 
> > 3.6-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> While 3.6.2 is fine. 3.6.3-rc1 crashes my machine (Asus U45-JC) at
> boot. A screenshot of the output is here:
> 
> http://www.fritha.org/crash.jpg
> 
> Reverting this one fixes it:
> 
> > Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>
> >     drm/nouveau/bios: fix shadowing of ACPI ROMs larger than 64KiB

Ick.

Does Linus's 3.7 git tree also crash for you this way?

Ben, any thoughts?  Should I just drop this for now from the 3.6-stable
tree until it gets worked out?

greg k-h
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