Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc5: System boot regression caused by commit a2bd7274b47124d2fc4dfdb8c0591f545ba749dd

Yinghai Lu
2008-08-29T21:13:31Z

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> On Friday, 29 of August 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> On Friday, 29 of August 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> >
>> > Another week (my weeks do seem to be eight days, don't they? Very odd),
>> > another -rc.
>> >
>> > The dirstat pretty much says it all:
>> >
>> > 43.0% arch/arm/configs/
>> > 43.9% arch/arm/
>> > 25.5% arch/powerpc/configs/
>> > 26.8% arch/powerpc/
>> > 73.9% arch/
>> > 4.4% drivers/usb/musb/
>> > 5.4% drivers/usb/
>> > 4.0% drivers/watchdog/
>> > 16.0% drivers/
>> > 3.5% fs/
>> >
>> > yeah, the bulk of it is all config updates, and with arm and powerpc
>> > leading the pack.
>>
>> Doesn't boot on my quad core test box, apparently because of an AHCI failure.
>>
>> Bisecting ...
>
> Bisection turned up commit a2bd7274b47124d2fc4dfdb8c0591f545ba749dd as the culprit:
>
> commit a2bd7274b47124d2fc4dfdb8c0591f545ba749dd
> Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon Aug 25 00:56:08 2008 -0700
>
> x86: fix HPET regression in 2.6.26 versus 2.6.25, check hpet against BAR, v3
>
> Reverting this commit helps.
>

can i get whole bootlog with "debug"?

YH