Re: x86_64 : kernel initial decompression hangs on vmware

From: Fengguang Wu
Date: Wed Oct 10 2007 - 16:32:48 EST


On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:18:42PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 October 2007 09:37:39 Fengguang Wu wrote:
>
> > One of my friends' vmware "hangs"
>
> It should just be a little slow. VMware seems to do something fishy
> here -- KVM or Xen using VT don't have this issue.

Yeah, it's a false hang ;-)

> > on booting Linux 2.6.23, and then get
> > it to work by applying your patch at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/72.
>
> The patch is already in 2.6.23; it was just missing in .22. Perhaps
> your friend confused those two.

Ah indeed. Sorry for the noise.

Fengguang

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