Re: 2.6.16-rc5-mm3 doesn't boot on T23 Thinkpad, 2.6.16-rc5-mm2 did

Andrew Morton
2006-03-08T11:06:43Z

jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> 2.6.16-rc5-mm3 fails to boot on my IBM T23 thinkpad (P3 1133 MHz, 1 Gb
> memory). dmesg and .config below.
>
> It crashes between these two lines:
>
> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
> <crash>
> Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 2266.22 BogoMIPS (lpj=4532447)
>
> messages written down from the screen:
>
> divide error: 0000 #1
> EIP is at kmem_cache_init

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm3/hot-fixes/revert-x86_64-mm-i386-early-alignment.patch
should fix that.