Re: [2.6.27.4-5 stable regressions] Kernel boot early crash with low-64k reservation patches

["Bruno Prémont" <bruno.premont@restena.lu>]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 07:36:54 -0800 Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 08:34:40AM +0100, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On a VMWare (ESX 3.5.0 Update 3) guest we get boot failure at the
> > very beginning of boot process. (Boot successful with 2.6.27.4,
> > failing with 2.6.27.x where x > 4 or just adding the 5 patches
> > below to 2.6.27.4)
> > 
> > State of config option
> >   CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K=y
> > or
> >   # CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K not set
> > does not make any difference.
> 
> Does the 2.6.27.8 kernel work better for you, or does it also fail?
> 
> Also, have you tried the 2.6.28-rc releases to see if the problem is
> also there?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Any stable release after 2.6.27.4 is bad (that is 2.6.27.5,
2.6.27.6, 2.6.27.8 -- 2.6.27.7 has not been tested), they all produce
the same (not verified exact register/stack values) result.

We have not tried any 2.6.28-rc kernels yet.

Bruno