Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756730AbYBDOCV (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 09:02:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754638AbYBDOCE (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 09:02:04 -0500 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.183]:18458 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753713AbYBDOCC (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 09:02:02 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QzUm3RCeRkhV9hZbH5tlay92LcaTsvY7+j5m1+WjJLRA5k/RVZkbOn/MhEUo0SK0Q3CcvCE/UCirSiV+cGvfIoCOBEdGaXpJfCEVHornWgyOqZBPNe1OnSgfmghAzlXA0q2vnUKTttCiIwnaLgI0V57K/Ghi6KBEY34Cq/11KLI= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:01:59 +0800 From: "Jeff Chua" To: "Ingo Molnar" Subject: Re: Commit f06e4ec breaks vmware Cc: "Jan Engelhardt" , "Thomas Gleixner" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , petr@vandrovec.name In-Reply-To: <20080204115144.GA17850@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080204115144.GA17850@elte.hu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1555 Lines: 54 On Feb 4, 2008 7:51 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > sad to say, but f06e4ec... breaks booting the kernel in vmware > > commit f06e4ec1c15691b0cfd2397ae32214fa36c90d71 I had the same problem. But I bisect down to a earlier commit. Reverting this patch, and I can boot up using vmware. commit 8d947344c47a40626730bb80d136d8daac9f2060 Author: Glauber de Oliveira Costa Date: Wed Jan 30 13:31:12 2008 +0100 x86: change write_idt_entry signature > could you send us the /proc/cpuinfo data of the guest CPU? Here's my guest's /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 14 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU L2500 @ 1.83GHz stepping : 8 cpu MHz : 1828.645 cache size : 2048 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss constant_tsc up arch_perfmon pebs bts pni bogomips : 3546.54 clflush size : 64 > if latest -git still fails, does the patch below solve the problem? Doesn't seem to work for me. Thanks, Jeff. -- 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/