From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:00:37 +0000 Subject: Re: fix memory corruption/crash for physical-mode EFI calls Message-Id: <16628.23429.514009.645984@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <16623.29412.381259.793452@napali.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <16623.29412.381259.793452@napali.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:54:13 -0500, Jack Steiner said: Jack> FYI, I looked at the SGI boot failures that are occurring on Jack> recent 2.6 kernels that have INIT_TASK in region 5. The boot Jack> failures are caused by a bug in our PROM. It incorrectly Jack> assumes that the stack is identity mapped. That would do it. Glad you found the culprit. One mystery we can scratch off. --david