From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756120AbYIGUIQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2008 16:08:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755581AbYIGUIA (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2008 16:08:00 -0400 Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.29]:33401 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754322AbYIGUH7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2008 16:07:59 -0400 From: David Sanders Reply-To: linux@sandersweb.net To: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [BUG] x86 kenel won't boot under Virtual PC Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 16:07:52 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, the arch/x86 maintainers References: <200808311422.12525.linux@sandersweb.net> <48C1C156.9080003@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <48C1C156.9080003@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809071607.52645.linux@sandersweb.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 05 September 2008 19:31, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > David Sanders wrote: > > I recently discovered that x86 kernels won't boot under Virtual PC. In > > this case paravirt was not built into the kernel. The kernel just > > "hangs" on attempted boot with no error messages. Git-bisect pinpointed > > the following commit as the problem: > > Hi David, > > Could you please confirm if the tip kernel solves the problem? > > Either that or apply this patch series to mainline; I'd like to promote > this to urgent and send it to Linus for inclusion in 2.6.27, but I need > verification as quickly as possible. > > -hpa Peter, sorry about delay in replying I was out of town for weekend. I will apply your patch and git back to you on results. A quick look a the patches indicates that nop.h and the users of nop.h are not addressed so I may have to combine your patches with Linus's Kconfig patch to get a working kernel. David