Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751056AbWLMVYH (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:24:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751068AbWLMVYH (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:24:07 -0500 Received: from 216-99-217-87.dsl.aracnet.com ([216.99.217.87]:57795 "EHLO sous-sol.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751056AbWLMVYE (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:24:04 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 3054 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:24:00 EST Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:33:25 -0800 From: Chris Wright To: dean gaudet Cc: Jan Beulich , Dave Jones , Zwane Mwaikambo , Michael Buesch , Metathronius Galabant , stable@kernel.org, Michael Krufky , Justin Forbes , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, "Theodore Ts'o" , Chris Wedgwood , akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, Chuck Wolber , Chris Wright , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 46/61] fix Intel RNG detection Message-ID: <20061213203325.GL10475@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <20061101053340.305569000@sous-sol.org> <20061101054343.623157000@sous-sol.org> <20061120234535.GD17736@redhat.com> <20061121022109.GF1397@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <4562D5DA.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <20061122015046.GI1397@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <45640FF4.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <20061124202729.GC29264@redhat.com> <456D56E7.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 979 Lines: 21 * dean gaudet (dean@arctic.org) wrote: > just for the public record (i already communicated with Jan in private > mail on this one)... i have a box which hangs hard starting at 2.6.18.2 > and 2.6.19 -- hangs hard during the intel hw rng tests (no sysrq > response). and the hang occurs prior to the printk so it took some > digging to figure out which module was taking out the system. > > Jan's patch gets the box past the hang... it seems like this should be in > at least the next 2.6.19.x stable (and if there's going to be another > 2.6.18.x stable then it should be included there as well). Thanks for the data point. I wonder if you get SMI and never come back. Do you boot with no_fwh_detect=1 or -1? thanks, -chris - 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/