From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266608AbUBLVgv (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:36:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266607AbUBLVgv (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:36:51 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:192 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266608AbUBLVgt (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:36:49 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:38:31 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Mark Haverkamp Cc: piggin@cyberone.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, cem@osdl.org Subject: Re: 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Message-Id: <20040212133831.5d173795.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1076600437.22976.3.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> References: <20040212015710.3b0dee67.akpm@osdl.org> <402B6251.2060909@cyberone.com.au> <1076600437.22976.3.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mark Haverkamp wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 03:24, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.3-rc2/2.6.3-rc2-mm1/ > > > > > > > > > > Nether this nor the previous one boots on the NUMAQ at osdl. > > Not sure which is the last -mm that did. 2.6.3-rc2 boots. > > > > I turned early_printk on and nothing. It stops at > > Loading linux.............. > > I saw this behavior with the last mm kernel on my 8-way with > CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G. The problem went away when I backed out the > highmem-equals-user-friendliness.patch Thanks for working that out. James Morris reports that the same patch causes initrd-with-highmem failures. Having enough bugs to care for, I guess I'll drop it.