Re: BISECTED: 2.6.35 (and -git) fail to boot: APIC problems

From: Ira W. Snyder
Date: Mon Aug 16 2010 - 11:42:36 EST


On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 02:26:49PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> "Ira W. Snyder" <iws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Hello Eric,
> >
> > I've recently tried to boot 2.6.35 (and -git) on one of my machines, and it
> > fails to boot. No messages are printed to the serial console. I have run git
> > bisect, and found that your commit cf7500c0ea133d is the cause.
>
> This problem took a while to track down, but it should be fixed in the
> commit below. Which linus merged today from the x86-urgent branch.
>
> Thank you for the excellent bug report, and my apologies for missing
> this the first time around.
>
> Can you please verify the commit below fixes your problem?
>

Thanks Eric!

Commit 5989cd6a1cbf86 fixes my problem. It looks like Linus pulled this
patch very soon after I had updated my -git tree. I guess this was just
a case of bad timing. :)

Thanks again for responding so quickly!
Ira
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