Re: Linux 2.5.30

From: Thomas Molina (tmolina@cox.net)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 11:57:44 EST


On 2 Aug 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 04:17, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > If the PNP BIOS panic is new (ie it didn't happen in 2.5.24), can you
> > write down the whole panic (and look up the symbols) and send that one to
> > Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>?
> >
> > That would most likely be due to some of the GDT reorganizations that
> > happened for 2.5.30 due to the thread-local-storage patches.
>
> The PnPBIOS gdt setup changes I did are wrong somewhere. If I can get
> 2.5.30 to actually boot I'll try and track it down. The traces I have
> basically go
> kernel -> kernel -> kernel -> pnpbios *BANG*
>
> and appear to be jumping to the wrong physical address (ie gdt is
> incorrect)

I have an open problem report on pnpbios, together with an oops, on
my status report page at http://members.cox.net/kernprobs/status.html

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