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SubjectRe: 2.3.4[67] does not boot with PAE36
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Hi Ingo, 

Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu> writes:

> > This time it hangs for a while after 'loading test......' and then
> > automagically reboots.
>
> one bug is fixed by the attached patch, but then we spontaneously reboot
> later at SMP init time (we somewhere get confused around head.S in when
> booting secondary CPUs). Anyway, without SMP PAE should already work with
> the attached patch. Looking for the other bug now.
>
> (the bug was that we allocated and initialized secondary PAE page tables
> outside the 8MB initial virtual memory - bootmem_alloc_pages() prefers to
> return addresses above 16MB on x86.)

This fixes my boot problems.

Greetings
Christoph

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