Re: Yet another 2.6.35 regression (AGP)?

From: Woody Suwalski
Date: Fri Jul 09 2010 - 12:27:42 EST


Jesse Barnes wrote:
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:21:56 -0400
Woody Suwalski<terraluna977@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have found one system, where 2.6.35 does not work (as tested with rc3
and rc4)
That Intel system has no problems in 2.6.33.x nor 2.6.34.0.

The problem seems to be in AGP - I can boot if I specify "agp=off" - but
of course only in text mode...
There seems to be a hard lock-up, so the only way to show the crash is
by picture 8-)

Since I do not build kernel on that machine, I did not do any bisect
tests, however if someone is interested in digging deeper, I can try...
Preferably a patch to try out ;-)

This bug seems to be different then
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16179

Should it be blamed on BIOS (the conflict indicated just before the crash)?
Well even if the BIOS is doing something bad, if we handled it in
earlier kernels we should handle it today. So this sounds like a
regression.

A bisect should help if it was working before, can you do that?

OK, I have never really done the brute-force bissecting, but there is always first time...
Will try to do it over the weekend...

Unless U will be visiting Ottawa and want to do it yourself ;-)

Woody

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