Re: 2.6.7-rc3-mm1

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Eric BEGOT wrote:
>> I've installed 2.6.7-rc3-mm1 patch on my x86 and during the boot it
>> freezes. The last messages are :
>> CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ stepping 01
>> per-CPU timeslice cutoff : 731,38 usecs
>> task migration cache decay timeout : 1 msecs.
>> enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
>> ESR value before enabling vector : 00000000
>> ESR value after enabling vector : 00000000
>> Booting processor 1/15 eip 3000

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:13:03AM -0400, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> Try backing out this patch first;
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.7-rc3/2.6.7-rc3-mm1/broken-out/apic-enumeration-fixes.patch
> The other suspect would be the cpumask patch, but that may be a bit
> harder to backout.

As curious as I am as to whether that works, I'm also curious as to
whether it's the culprit in this case. Eric, could you also describe your
system? A dmesg from a working kernel would also help.

-- wli