From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: norman@thebacks.co.uk,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>, mingo <mingo@elte.hu>,
Alok Kataria <alokkataria1@gmail.com>, <bruno.premont@restena.lu>,
xl@xlsigned.net, dsd@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix VMI crash on boot in 2.6.27+ kernels
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:44:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081210004441.GB18520@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1228870222.8766.15.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com>
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 04:50:21PM -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Patches backported into 2.6.27.4 caused a regression with VMI kernels
> running on VMware which ends in a page fault during boot. I have a fix
> which still allows DMI checks to be done early.
Is this regression also present on 2.6.28-rc kernels as well?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-10 0:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-10 0:50 [PATCH] Fix VMI crash on boot in 2.6.27+ kernels Zachary Amsden
2008-12-10 0:44 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-12-10 7:30 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-12-10 1:15 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-12-10 1:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-10 7:31 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-12-10 9:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-10 7:36 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-12-11 0:06 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-12-11 0:20 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-12-11 3:31 ` Greg KH
2008-12-11 22:23 ` [PATCH] Fix VMI crash on boot in 2.6.27, 2.6.28 kernels Zachary Amsden
2008-12-11 21:45 ` Greg KH
2008-12-11 23:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-12 5:37 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-12-11 5:44 ` [PATCH] Fix VMI crash on boot in 2.6.27+ kernels Zachary Amsden
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