Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 15:18:59 +0100
From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>,
       linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
       Morton Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
       Fastboot mailing list <fastboot@lists.osdl.org>,
       Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 kernel instant reboot with older binutils fix
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 14:53:26 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:46:45AM +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > 
> > o i386 kernel reboots instantly if compiled with binutils older than
> >   2.6.15.
> 
> Should that have been "2.15"?
> 
> And is the following perhaps the same issue?
> 
> Subject    : kernel immediately reboots instead of booting
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/2/15
> Submitter  : Steve Youngs <steve@youngs.au.com>
> Status     : unknown

Indeed this pretty much resembles my problem.

> @Steve:
> You had binutils 2.14.90.0.6 .
> Does this patch fix it for you?

I'd really expect it to, Steve please try the patch and confirm.

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Jean Delvare
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