Re: [Bug 8040] Hang before INIT when CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:13:25 -0700 bugme-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8040
> >
> >
> > ------- Additional Comments From Nilshar@xxxxxxxxx  2007-03-14 03:13 -------
> > Any news on that bug please ?
>
> None whatsoever.  Three people are reporting this and it's a drop-dead
> showstopper for a 2.6.21 release so we just have to wait until someone
> wakes up and thinks about it.
>
> It would be very useful if one of the reporters could perform a git-bisect
> search to identify the offending change, please.
>
> I would dearly like to point you at a document or web page which describes
> kernel-git-bisect-for-newbies, but afaik there isn't such a thing, which is
> a huge failing.

I have one of those one-of-my-machines-wont-boot-2.6.21-rc*
and I expect that I'll try to use git bisect on it, in which case
I will also document it.

-- 
~Randy
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