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Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 10:50:24 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@gmail.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BISECTED][REGRESSION] Kernel does not boot on EeePC
References: <20140608090223.GA8703@sucs.org> <20140608094517.GB12736@gmail.com>
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On 06/08/2014 02:45 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> The latest kernel (c593e8978722f7f4a12932733cfeed6c0c74fbaa) refuses to
>> boot on my EeePC - after grub is finished the screen just remains black
>> and the only thing that does something is pressing the power button. The
>> problem commit seems to be:
>>
>> commit 3e1a878b7ccdb31da6d9d2b855c72ad87afeba3f
>> Author: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
>> Date:   Thu Jun 5 15:42:45 2014 +0200
>>
>>     x86/smpboot: Initialize secondary CPU only if master CPU will wait for it
> 
> Argh, and have read this just a minute after expressing my hope that 
> the hotplug fix is correct :-/
> 
> Linus, please revert commit 3e1a878b7ccdb.
> 
>   Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> 

I really want to say *THANK YOU* to Sitsofe for a very timely and
complete report.  You really saved us some highly valuable time.

	-hpa


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