Re: Fail to early boot with v2.6.27-rc2 to at least v2.6.29-rc2due to dc1e35c

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jan 22 2009 - 03:28:29 EST



* Avuton Olrich <avuton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:38 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Avuton Olrich wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> My computer fails to make it past 'Unpacking kernel' with anything
> >> later than dc1e35, to at least v2.6.29-rc2 due to dc1e35c, at least so
> >> git bisect told me. While writing this bug I discovered I was using
> >> gcc-4.1.1 when I thought I was using gcc-4.3.2; I upgraded, recompiled
> >> 2.6.28.1 and same results so I assume the same results would come from
> >> me doing the 4 hour bisect again.
> >>
> >
> > Hi Avuton,
> >
> > Could you apply these two patches and verify that they work, even with the
> > BIOS CPUID level limit enabled?
>
> Worked perfect, again thanks!

Thanks Avuton - i've updated the commit with your Tested-by tag, see the
final commit below.

Ingo

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