Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Bug 8136] 2.6.21-rc2-mm2 won't boot | From | Nicolas Mailhot <> | Date | Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:36:09 +0100 |
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Le mardi 06 mars 2007 à 16:15 -0800, Andrew Morton a écrit :
> So rc2-mm2 panics due to "MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC" and > rc2-mm1 does not. > > Could be ACPI, could be x86_64 timer changes, could be something else. > > Would you have time to bisect it? > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/bisecting-mm-trees.txt > explains how. > > If so, I'd suggest you drill in on the patches between > x86_64-mm-defconfig-update.patch and > optimize-and-simplify-get_cycles_sync.patch: the x86 changes.
I may have some more debug time this evening (CET), probably not enough for a full bisection. I'd really love to have timer/clock problems nailed once and for all on this box (MP BIOS, RTC, HPET, whatever)
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