Re: x86: Regression in 3.6.4, bisected to "Exclude E820_RESERVEDregions..."

[Alexander Holler]

Am 29.10.2012 17:59, schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 02:19:32PM +0100, Alexander Holler wrote:
> > Am 29.10.2012 11:22, schrieb Alexander Holler:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've just bisected a problem with 3.6.4.
> > >
> > > I had to revert commit 54ce8ce298f382a06186cb4672ad6aa090b050b6
> > > (1bbbbe779aabe1f0768c2bf8f8c0a5583679b54a in mainline), otherwise my box
> > > didn't boot.
> > >
> > > I can't provide any output, because I don't see if that commit is
> > > applied. ;)
> >
> > That sentence missed an 'any'. But I've now attached a serial, here is
> > the output:
>
> Thanks for this, it should be fixed in the next 3.6.y release, we needed
> to add two more commits from upstream:
> 	844ab6f993b1d32eb40512503d35ff6ad0c57030
> 	f82f64dd9f485e13f29f369772d4a0e868e5633a
> If you apply those two, and it doesn't solve the problem for you, please
> let us know.

They don't applied cleanly, but after fixing the conflicts it seem's to 
work.

Of course, I don't know the difference with applying those two commits 
or reverting the commit in 3.6.4, but I assume it's better to add the 
two instead of reverting the one (I'm currently to lazy to read and 
understand the commit-messages). ;)

Thanks,

Alexander

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