From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: werner <werner@copaya.yi.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: EDD problem -- regression -- crash on booting by probing EDD
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:21:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080422142103.GA5652@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080422062840.195b4d3d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 06:28:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:33:32 -0300 (GFT) "werner" <werner@copaya.yi.org> wrote:
> > There is a regression in 2.6.25.
>
> Rafael bcc'ed.
>
> > Booting stops with: Probing EDD (edd=off to disable) message.
> >
> > It dont work the kernel boot parameter edd=off . With pci=off the computer continues to boot, but later it dont find hard disks etc.
>
> Tim and Matt cc'ed.
>
> > Thats happening on 2.6.25 definitive, but was verified to go back until 2.6.24-rc6-git8, but it wasnt yet at 2.6.24-rc6-git2 which worked correctly.
> >
>
> hm, that's a nice narrow window. Unfortunately for the next few days I
> can't personally get in and find out what we changed during it.
I've scanned the diff between these, and can't see anything that would
obviously cause a problem. Nothing that touches the EDD codepath
directly at least. I'll be curious to see the additional initcall
debug data.
--
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-22 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-20 22:33 EDD problem -- regression -- crash on booting by probing EDD werner
2008-04-22 13:28 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-22 14:21 ` Matt Domsch [this message]
2008-04-23 0:20 ` werner
2008-04-23 15:35 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-04-26 23:17 ` Matt Domsch
2008-04-28 2:31 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-04-25 16:04 ` Randy Dunlap
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2008-04-21 16:02 werner
2008-04-23 7:39 devzero
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