Re: Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Tue Feb 27 2007 - 02:04:47 EST



> > I've not been able to reproduce it since, but I know others (BCC'ed on
> > this note) have seen it and might prod them to come forth with details
> > (and broken .config files)
>
> In my case, disabling CPU_FREQ_PMAC made the failure go away.
> After reverting this patch, CPU_FREQ_PMAC is once again operating
> successfully, so far.

Hrm.. which cpufreq method is used on both your machines ? If it's the
one involving the PMU, it does involve a full hard reset of the
processor (with appropriate cache flushes etc...), maybe something's
going wrong in that area....

Ben.


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/