Re: alpha DEAD on >=2.6.16-rc3

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sun Apr 09 2006 - 17:19:28 EST


leonie herzberg <leo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi. I already posted a bugreport on the bugzilla
> (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6351) but I feel no one is
> recognizing that; and as I see it, it's a rather hard bug since it
> throws a kernel panic immediately at boot time. I believe it has to do
> with the change made in 2.6.16-rc3 concerning "cpu_possible_map". None
> of the newer kernel versions works.
> As you can see at the first (and up to now, only) comment, this is not
> only my problem.
> Maybe it appears only in connection with SMP. I can't tell.

Please test ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17-rc1/2.6.17-rc1-mm2/broken-out/alpha-smp-boot-fixes.patch
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