Re: 2.6.15-git breaks Xorg on em64t

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Jan 14 2006 - 19:05:18 EST


On Saturday 14 January 2006 23:51, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 07:43:27PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Saturday 14 January 2006 07:52, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > Andi,
> > > Sometime in the last week something was introduced to Linus'
> > > tree which makes my dual EM64T go nuts when X tries to start.
> > > By "go nuts", I mean it does various random things, seen so
> > > far..
> > > - Machine check. (I'm convinced this isn't a hardware problem
> > > despite the new addition telling me otherwise :)
> >
> > Normally it should be impossible to cause machine checks from software
> > on Intel systems.
>
> -git7+ is the only time I've ever seen one on this box.

What happens when you apply

ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt/patches/page-table-setup

?

Anyways, since there doesn't seem to be much interest in pretesting of x86-64
patches anymore before merge such things happen occassionally.

-Andi

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