Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

Akinobu Mita
2006-12-02T04:17:27Z

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:19:00PM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> On Friday 01 December 2006 19:32, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 19:33:21 -0500
> > Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > I booted without the video and vga settings with earlyprintk=vga and got output. The
> > > kenerl was complaining about a crc error. Checking the patch list I found:
> > >
> > > crc32-replace-bitreverse-by-bitrev32.patch
> > >
> > > reversing this patch fixes booting here.
> >
> > Odd that you're the only person seeing this - could be a miscompile?
>
> I recompiled four times. The only change the last time was to reverse the above patch. I am using
> gcc is 4.1.1 (gentoo 4.1.1-r1).
>

Can you try build and boot with that patch again?
I expected there is not any logical changes in that patch. So I want to
make sure it.