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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: "Bruno Prémont" <bruno.premont@restena.lu>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Stefan Winter <stefan.winter@restena.lu>
Subject: Re: [2.6.27.4-5 stable regressions] Kernel boot early crash with low-64k reservation patches
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 07:36:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081209153654.GC25679@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081209083440.7569d7a0@pluto.restena.lu>

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 08:34:40AM +0100, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On a VMWare (ESX 3.5.0 Update 3) guest we get boot failure at the very
> beginning of boot process. (Boot successful with 2.6.27.4, failing with
> 2.6.27.x where x > 4 or just adding the 5 patches below to 2.6.27.4)
> 
> State of config option
>   CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K=y
> or
>   # CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K not set
> does not make any difference.

Does the 2.6.27.8 kernel work better for you, or does it also fail?

Also, have you tried the 2.6.28-rc releases to see if the problem is
also there?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-09 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-09  7:34 [2.6.27.4-5 stable regressions] Kernel boot early crash with low-64k reservation patches Bruno Prémont
2008-12-09 15:36 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-12-09 15:50   ` Bruno Prémont
2008-12-09 16:46 ` Daniel Drake

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