Re: Linux 2.5.30

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 07:23:18 EST


On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 04:17, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> If the PNP BIOS panic is new (ie it didn't happen in 2.5.24), can you
> write down the whole panic (and look up the symbols) and send that one to
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>?
>
> That would most likely be due to some of the GDT reorganizations that
> happened for 2.5.30 due to the thread-local-storage patches.

The PnPBIOS gdt setup changes I did are wrong somewhere. If I can get
2.5.30 to actually boot I'll try and track it down. The traces I have
basically go
        kernel -> kernel -> kernel -> pnpbios *BANG*

and appear to be jumping to the wrong physical address (ie gdt is
incorrect)

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