Re: 2.6.3-rc2-mm1

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Feb 12 2004 - 16:38:39 EST


Mark Haverkamp <markh@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 03:24, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.3-rc2/2.6.3-rc2-mm1/
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Nether this nor the previous one boots on the NUMAQ at osdl.
> > Not sure which is the last -mm that did. 2.6.3-rc2 boots.
> >
> > I turned early_printk on and nothing. It stops at
> > Loading linux..............
>
> I saw this behavior with the last mm kernel on my 8-way with
> CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G. The problem went away when I backed out the
> highmem-equals-user-friendliness.patch

Thanks for working that out. James Morris reports that the same patch
causes initrd-with-highmem failures.

Having enough bugs to care for, I guess I'll drop it.
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