[BUG] Early Kernel Panic with 2.6.15-rc5

[Ashutosh Naik]

Distribution:
Fedora Core 2, 2.6.15-rc5 kernel

Hardware Environment:
Acer Travelmate 240 ,Intel Celeron 2.6 Ghz, lspci with 2.6.14 attached

Description
I am getting an early kernel panic when I compiled the Kernel
2.6.15-rc5 on my Acer Laptop. The dump is as follows. It is
reproducible every time on bootup.

Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
 printing eip:
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002 [#1]
PREEMPT
Modules linked in :
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c020e494>]    Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010292   (2.6.15-rc5)
EIP is at kobject_add+0x94/0xd0
eax: c0455d80   ebx: c0455b4c   ecx: 00000000 edx: c0455b68
esi: ffffffea   edi: c0455d88   ebp: 00000000 esp: c6e8bf4c
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process swapper (pid = 1 threadinfo = c6e8a00 task = c6e88a50)
Stack : c0455b4c ffffffea c0455d20 c020e4f2 00000000 c0455b38 c0455b4c c0455b38
        c0455b4c c0294b12 c0455b4c c040e7c2 c03cdd36 c0455b38 00000000 00000000
        00000000 c0295542 00000000 c021fa65 c011d377 c0411638 00000000 c04ed0dc
Call Trace:
 [<c020e4f2>] kobject_register+0x22/0x70
 [<c0294b12>] bus_add_driver+0x52/0xc0
 [<c0295542>] driver_register+0x32/0x40
 [<c0214a65>] pcie_start_thread+0x15/0x60
 [<c011d377>] printk+0x17/0x20
 [<c04ed0dc>] pcied_init+0x1c/0xa0
 [<c04ed055>] pci_proc_init+0x65/0x70
 [<c04da83b>] do_init_calls+0x2b/0xc0
 [<c01002a0>] init+0x0/0x160
 [<c01002a0>] init+0x0/0x160
 [<c01002d7>] init+0x37/0x160
 [<c01013c9>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xc
Code: 74 df 89 f8 e8 ce 02 00 00 eb d6 b8 01 00 00 00 e8 42 af f0 ff 85 ff 74 36
 8b 43 28 8d 53 1c 83 c0 08 89 43 1c 8b 48 04 89 50 04 <89> 11 89 4a 04 b8 01 00
 00 00 e8 5d af f0 ff b8 00 e0 ff ff 21
 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

Attached - lspci.dump
Attached - .config

Attachment: lspci.dump
Description: Binary data

Attachment: 2.6.15-rc5-crash.config
Description: Binary data