Re: kernel (64bit) 4GB memory support

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Rudolf Usselmann wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 14:49, Frank Denis (Jedi/Sector One) wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 07:25:31PM +0700, Rudolf Usselmann wrote:
> > > Actually I tried "2.6.10-rc3" a few days ago, and had the same
> > > results. Do you still want me to try "2.6.10-rc2-mm4" ?
> > 
> >   Yes, try 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 and apply add this patch:
> >   
> > ftp://ftp.c9x.org/linux-kernel/2.6.10-rc2/2.6.10-rc2-mm4/2.6.10-rc2-mm4-jedi4.patch.bz2
> > 
> >   Does it work?
> 
> Hi Frank,
> 
> no unfortunately it did not work.
> 
> The "panics" are different, the kernel seems to be able to
> recover from panics ... 
> 
> Attached is an archive with ver_linux output, my config file,
> and a log file. You might find this to be more useful this time,
> as I was able to do several things to make it "crash" at one
> point I did a remote login in to this computer and that caused
> a crash as well. Definitely a lot more crashes I was able to
> capture ....

Rudolf, thanks for collecting that information. Since you said that 
2.6.10-rc3 also had similar results it counts out a number of suspects i 
had in the -mm tree. Could you work towards isolating a working kernel 
version? You could try these;

2.6.8.1
2.6.9
2.6.9-mm1

Thanks,
	Zwane
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