From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754595Ab0HPPmV (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:42:21 -0400 Received: from ovro.ovro.caltech.edu ([192.100.16.2]:42117 "EHLO ovro.ovro.caltech.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750919Ab0HPPmU (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:42:20 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:42:18 -0700 From: "Ira W. Snyder" To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com Subject: Re: BISECTED: 2.6.35 (and -git) fail to boot: APIC problems Message-ID: <20100816154218.GB30251@ovro.caltech.edu> References: <20100813193441.GD18691@ovro.caltech.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (ovro.ovro.caltech.edu); Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:42:19 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 02:26:49PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "Ira W. Snyder" writes: > > > Hello Eric, > > > > I've recently tried to boot 2.6.35 (and -git) on one of my machines, and it > > fails to boot. No messages are printed to the serial console. I have run git > > bisect, and found that your commit cf7500c0ea133d is the cause. > > This problem took a while to track down, but it should be fixed in the > commit below. Which linus merged today from the x86-urgent branch. > > Thank you for the excellent bug report, and my apologies for missing > this the first time around. > > Can you please verify the commit below fixes your problem? > Thanks Eric! Commit 5989cd6a1cbf86 fixes my problem. It looks like Linus pulled this patch very soon after I had updated my -git tree. I guess this was just a case of bad timing. :) Thanks again for responding so quickly! Ira