Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751350AbWCIUiu (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 15:38:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751439AbWCIUiu (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 15:38:50 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:6542 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751350AbWCIUiu (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 15:38:50 -0500 Subject: Re: State of the Linux PCI and PCI Hotplug Subsystems for 2.6.16-rc5 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Tomasz Torcz , Greg KH , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, Ben Collins In-Reply-To: References: <20060306223545.GA20885@kroah.com> <20060308222652.GR4006@stusta.de> <20060308225029.GA26117@suse.de> <20060308231851.GA26666@suse.de> <20060309184010.GA4639@irc.pl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:37:50 +0100 Message-Id: <1141936671.2883.33.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1029 Lines: 27 On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 11:49 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > > > > > "Fedora rawhide kernel stopped booting for a bunch of people, all with > > > 686-SMP boxes. I saw it myself too, it hung just after the 'write > > > protecting kernel rodata'. > > > > > > > Ubuntu has similar problem: > > https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/29601 > > I believe Ubuntu's 2.6.15 source is vanilla+git patches. > > Interesting. He also apparently boots with "noapic nolapic" on the "386" > kernel, but not the "686" kernel. hmm curious; I wonder if the "weird" (as in, Arjan considers it a stupid idea and broken) "enable APIC on UP but not really" patch is at fault here, which isn't in mainline.... - 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/