Re: [Regression in 7.0] OLPC-XO-1.5 will not boot after commit 157266edcc
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu May 07 2026 - 04:39:02 EST
* Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Lo! Looks like nothing happened since the report (please correct me if
> I'm wrong, it's easy to miss something). Adding a few more people and
> lists to the recipients of this reply, maybe that will things rolling.
>
> FWIW, the culprit seems to be 157266edcc5671 ("x86/boot/e820: Simplify
> append_e820_table() and remove restriction on single-entry tables")
> [v7.0-rc1] from Ingo.
Yeah, I missed the empty table case. :-/
> Therefore adding David Gow, who submitted a fix for the culprit -- but
> that didn't make it anywhere afaics, unless I'm missing something. For
> details see:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260416065746.1896647-1-david@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
This fix is now queued up and should go upstream later this week:
5772f6535227 ("x86/boot/e820: Re-enable BIOS fallback if e820 table is empty")
Thanks,
Ingo