Re: Commit f06e4ec breaks vmware

["Jeff Chua" <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>]

On Feb 4, 2008 7:51 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> > sad to say, but f06e4ec... breaks booting the kernel in vmware
> > commit f06e4ec1c15691b0cfd2397ae32214fa36c90d71

I had the same problem. But I bisect down to a earlier commit.
Reverting this patch, and I can boot up using vmware.

commit 8d947344c47a40626730bb80d136d8daac9f2060
Author: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 30 13:31:12 2008 +0100

    x86: change write_idt_entry signature


> could you send us the /proc/cpuinfo data of the guest CPU?

Here's my guest's /proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 14
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU      L2500  @ 1.83GHz
stepping        : 8
cpu MHz         : 1828.645
cache size      : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 10
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss constant_tsc up
arch_perfmon pebs bts pni
bogomips        : 3546.54
clflush size    : 64


> if latest -git still fails, does the patch below solve the problem?

Doesn't seem to work for me.


Thanks,
Jeff.