Re: 2.6.23 boot failures on x86-64.

Andi Kleen
2007-10-29T18:19:01Z

On Monday 29 October 2007 18:50:14 Dave Jones wrote:
> We've had a number of people reporting that their x86-64s stopped booting
> when they moved to 2.6.23. It rebooted just after discovering the AGP bridge
> as a result of the IOMMU init.

It's probably the usual "nobody tests sparsemem at all" issue.

But if allocating bootmem >4G doesn't work on these systems
most likely they have more problems anyways. It might be better
to find out what goes wrong exactly.

-Andi