Re: 2.6.29-rc1 does not boot

[Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>]

Dieter Ries wrote:
> Mike Travis schrieb:
>> Hi Dieter and Maciej,
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
>> Can you try the attached patches on your system?  It boots on my system fine
>> now, but wasn't there a problem with resume as well?  (My test systems are
>> remote so suspending/resuming over the network is iffy.)
> 
> I just tested it. The kernel does boot up, suspending to ram works
> perfectly, hibernating did also work, but I found an inconsistent lock
> state in dmesg afterwards. System is still fully functional
> 
> May or may not be related, I don't know.

If it doesn't happen before my patch, then it's probably related.

> 
> But the original problem is solved by your patches. Thank you!
> 
...
> 
>> The patches apply to the latest tip/cpus4096 branch:
>>
>> 	http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README
> 
> Thanks for that link. Could one of you hint me to some documentation
> about what tip is? I searched a bit, but didn't find it.

Ingo can probably explain it more fully, I just think of it as the
"tip of the iceberg" (that sank the Titanic... ;-)

> 
>> (They may apply to linux-next as well, I'm not sure.)
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Mike
>>
> 
> cu
> 
> Dieter