Re: State of the Linux PCI and PCI Hotplug Subsystems for 2.6.16-rc5

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:37:50PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
 > On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 11:49 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > > 
 > > On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
 > > > > 
 > > > >   "Fedora rawhide kernel stopped booting for a bunch of people, all with 
 > > > >    686-SMP boxes. I saw it myself too, it hung just after the 'write 
 > > > >    protecting kernel rodata'.
 > > > > 
 > > > 
 > > >   Ubuntu has similar problem:
 > > > https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/29601
 > > >  I believe Ubuntu's 2.6.15 source is vanilla+git patches.
 > > 
 > > Interesting. He also apparently boots with "noapic nolapic" on the "386" 
 > > kernel, but not the "686" kernel.
 >
 > hmm curious; I wonder if the "weird" (as in, Arjan considers it a stupid
 > idea and broken) "enable APIC on UP but not really" patch is at fault
 > here, which isn't in mainline....

Not present in the Fedora kernels any more, and this bug has been seen in
ones without it.

		Dave

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