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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:40:28 +0300
From: Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>
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To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
CC: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 14003] New: Infinite loop on bootup while handling
 DMAR
References: <bug-14003-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>	 <20090819142634.0fc550d1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1250754748.8974.17.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
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David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 14:26 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14003
>>>            Summary: Infinite loop on bootup while handling DMAR
>> That's a box-killing post-2.6.30 regression.
> 
> It's a BIOS bug -- the user's BIOS is written by idiots who obviously
> shipped it without any QA whatsoever.
Matt may be wondering why he was addressed, since the bugzilla entry
mentions only a bug in HP's BIOS.

I'm experiencing the same bug on a newly bought Dell Optiplex 760 with
BIOS version A03, as explained in my mail in lkml,
<4A89CB52.4030008@debian.org>, subject "[regression, bisected] fails to
boot on Dell Optiplex 760 with VT-d enabled".

Thanks,
Faidon