Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:44:41 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: norman@thebacks.co.uk,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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       Alok Kataria <alokkataria1@gmail.com>, <bruno.premont@restena.lu>,
       xl@xlsigned.net, dsd@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix VMI crash on boot in 2.6.27+ kernels
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 04:50:21PM -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Patches backported into 2.6.27.4 caused a regression with VMI kernels
> running on VMware which ends in a page fault during boot.  I have a fix
> which still allows DMI checks to be done early.

Is this regression also present on 2.6.28-rc kernels as well?

thanks,

greg k-h
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