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Is this known?

Description of problem:
The latest Fedora kernel 2.6.24.3-12.fc8 fails to boot with:

Kernel panic - not syncing: DMAR hardware is malfunctioning

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436899

Should the kernel panic or just continue without using the DMAR hardware?