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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: X86 4.8 kernel boot questions
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On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 10:54:06AM -0700, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 10:25:46AM -0700, Tracy Smith, CEO wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > The production board I'm using doesn't have a JTAG available,
> > upgrading to 4.8 from 4.1,.and need to understand why Linux 4.8.3
> > doesn't boot on a x86_64 corei7-64. Boots with no issues with 4.1.

4.8 is not maintained anymore, so not much I can do here, but git bisect
is going to be your friend, good luck!

greg k-h