Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751497AbWCIUsS (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 15:48:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751439AbWCIUsR (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 15:48:17 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:22145 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751497AbWCIUsR (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 15:48:17 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 15:46:39 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Linus Torvalds , 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 Subject: Re: State of the Linux PCI and PCI Hotplug Subsystems for 2.6.16-rc5 Message-ID: <20060309204639.GA453@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds , 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 References: <20060306223545.GA20885@kroah.com> <20060308222652.GR4006@stusta.de> <20060308225029.GA26117@suse.de> <20060308231851.GA26666@suse.de> <20060309184010.GA4639@irc.pl> <1141936671.2883.33.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1141936671.2883.33.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1282 Lines: 33 On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:37:50PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > 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.... Not present in the Fedora kernels any more, and this bug has been seen in ones without it. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - 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/