2007-10-10 18:17:08

by Zachary Amsden

Subject: Re: x86_64 : kernel initial decompression hangs on vmware

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 15:37 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> Hi Zachary,
>
> One of my friends' vmware "hangs" on booting Linux 2.6.23, and then get
> it to work by applying your patch at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/72.
>
> It would be nice to see your fix going into mainline :-)

I thought that patch already went into mainline in 2.6.23? If not, it
would be nice to queue it for -stable (also for 2.6.22).

Zach

2007-10-10 21:15:30

by Wu Fengguang

Subject: Re: x86_64 : kernel initial decompression hangs on vmware

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:16:30PM -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 15:37 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > Hi Zachary,
> >
> > One of my friends' vmware "hangs" on booting Linux 2.6.23, and then get
> > it to work by applying your patch at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/72.
> >
> > It would be nice to see your fix going into mainline :-)
>
> I thought that patch already went into mainline in 2.6.23? If not, it

Sorry, the problematic kernel was 2.6.22.

> would be nice to queue it for -stable (also for 2.6.22).

Agreed.