Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262477AbUKLAbm (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:31:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262419AbUKLA2t (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:28:49 -0500 Received: from ns1.g-housing.de ([62.75.136.201]:59078 "EHLO mail.g-house.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262431AbUKLA1x (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:27:53 -0500 Message-ID: <41940384.1000409@g-house.de> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 01:27:48 +0100 From: Christian Kujau User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040926) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Domsch CC: Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Pekka Enberg , Greg KH Subject: Re: Oops in 2.6.10-rc1 (almost solved) References: <418FDE1F.7060804@g-house.de> <419005F2.8080800@g-house.de> <41901DF0.8040302@g-house.de> <84144f02041108234050d0f56d@mail.gmail.com> <4190B910.7000407@g-house.de> <20041109164238.M12639@g-house.de> <4191530D.8020406@g-house.de> <20041109234053.GA4546@lists.us.dell.com> <20041111224331.GA31340@lists.us.dell.com> In-Reply-To: <20041111224331.GA31340@lists.us.dell.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1544 Lines: 43 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Matt Domsch schrieb: > > As Linus points out, those are the magic numbers in EDD for number of > device entries stored. Your BIOS seems to be reporting that is has > more devices than it does, or the EDD assembly is horked in a way I > have not yet deciphered. actually, my BIOS is even to old for e.g. ACPI, with latest firmware installed. i had no issues so far with the board/bios, but perhaps this is no longer true. however, it's still strange that this thing is only triggerd with you change and CONFIG_EDD=y. > > I haven't been able to find a solution to your problem yet, and given > some external time constraints I've got, won't be able to look into > this again for another week or more. nevermind then. as nobody else seem to be bothered by this i am happy with the workarund (CONFIG_EDD=n) and since the lkml-archives exist we could get back to it when it's bothering more people (n>1) thank you for your time, Christian. - -- BOFH excuse #396: Mail server hit by UniSpammer. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBlAOE+A7rjkF8z0wRAkyLAJ4uy4LYBHWk8Wxwr/heQRVm7VOXfwCfW30C Zv1RdMYf1VOBEGkUnkQ+k0Q= =f2hG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/