From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933455AbXINQGg (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:06:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752649AbXINQG2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:06:28 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57182 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751654AbXINQG1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:06:27 -0400 Message-ID: <46EAB179.4030805@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:06:17 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Ebbert CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: EDD still failing on some systems with 2.6.23-rc6-git2 References: <46EAA9A1.1080100@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <46EAA9A1.1080100@redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chuck Ebbert wrote: > I added debugging code to print a letter for each step in i386 setup, > and it gets to 'J', then it hangs: > > /* Query EDD information */ > #if defined(CONFIG_EDD) || defined(CONFIG_EDD_MODULE) > putchar('J'); > query_edd(); > #endif > > Multiple reports of this happening on 2.6.23-rc6 can be found at > the end of: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=251724 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239585 I just attached a test patch to the bug report shown above. If someone with access to the relevant hardware could test out the patch, I would greatly appreciate it. -hpa