Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:57:10 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 3.9-rc1 |
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On 03/06/2013 08:08 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> wrote: >> >> Or not. ;-) This commit breaks boot on my MacBookAir3,1: >> >> commit 8d57470d8f859635deffe3919d7d4867b488b85a >> Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> >> Date: Fri Nov 16 19:38:58 2012 -0800 >> >> x86, mm: setup page table in top-down > > Argh. The whole page table setup crud is scarily fragile. >
Yes. The design of the new code should be much more robust by design, but of course all the corner cases got shifted around...
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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