From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "S.Çağlar Onur" <caglar@CS.Princeton.EDU>
Cc: stable@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Subject: Re: [stable] Boot failure with 2.6.27.46 on Xeon E5620 (Westmere EP)
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:51:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100525205123.GA14993@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <620C3556-2708-4704-90F3-37DDEF1A404E@CS.Princeton.EDU>
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 04:32:16PM -0400, "S.Çağlar Onur" wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On May 25, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:10:28AM -0400, "S.Çağlar Onur" wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> We are observing boot failures [1] & [2] on some of our servers (Dell
> >> r410) with 2.6.27-stable kernels. I found following commit in upstream
> >> tree via a quick search (but I haven't tried it yet) so I don't know
> >> whether I'm on the right track or not.
> >>
> >> Please let me know if anything else is needed...
> >
> > Has any .27 kernel worked on these machines? If so, can you narrow it
> > down to the patch that caused the problem?
>
> I don't think any .27 kernel worked on those machines before. But in
> any case I'll try (I don't have a physical access to those machines as
> they are located in China) an older .27 release to see.
Ok, so it isn't a regression, which is what I want to know.
New hardware like this, probably will only work on newer kernel
versions, so please use those instead :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-25 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-25 15:10 Boot failure with 2.6.27.46 on Xeon E5620 (Westmere EP) "S.Çağlar Onur"
2010-05-25 15:53 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2010-05-25 20:32 ` "S.Çağlar Onur"
2010-05-25 20:51 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-05-26 0:24 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-05-26 3:29 ` "S.Çağlar Onur"
2010-05-26 13:23 ` Youquan Song
2010-11-18 21:24 ` "S.Çağlar Onur"
2010-11-18 21:54 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 21:59 ` "S.Çağlar Onur"
2010-11-18 22:06 ` Greg KH
2010-06-02 23:54 ` "S.Çağlar Onur"
2010-06-03 16:40 ` Greg KH
2010-06-03 17:50 ` "S.Çağlar Onur"
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