From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752111Ab0JOEaX (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:30:23 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:46146 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750856Ab0JOEaW (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:30:22 -0400 Message-ID: <4CB7D8DC.6010003@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:30:20 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100921 Fedora/3.1.4-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rong Xu CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel won't boot if kernel image passes 0xffffffff82000000 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/14/2010 04:58 PM, Rong Xu wrote: > > I tried kernel 2.6.27 and it seems to have the same issue. > > Any comment? 2.6.26/27 are old kernels. The current kernel is 2.6.35, with 2.6.36 coming out very soon. As far as I know, this problem was found and fixed about two years ago, but if you could verify that so is indeed the case that would be useful. Thanks, -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.