Re: kernel won't boot if kernel image passes 0xffffffff82000000

From: Rong Xu
Date: Fri Oct 15 2010 - 15:24:42 EST


Thanks for the information. I just tried 2.6.34 and it indeed does not
have this problem. Do you remember which patch fixed this?  I tried
to search in the bugzilla but got no luck.

Regards,

-Rong

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:30 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 10/14/2010 04:58 PM, Rong Xu wrote:
> >
> > I tried kernel 2.6.27 and it seems to have the same issue.
> >
> > Any comment?
>
> 2.6.26/27 are old kernels.  The current kernel is 2.6.35, with 2.6.36
> coming out very soon.
>
> As far as I know, this problem was found and fixed about two years ago,
> but if you could verify that so is indeed the case that would be useful.
>
> Thanks,
>
>        -hpa
>
> --
> H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
> I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.
>
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