Re: 2.6.20.7 locking up hard on boot

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Sat Apr 21 2007 - 08:34:34 EST



On Saturday 21 April 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:34:20PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:30:59PM -0500, Marcos Pinto wrote:
> > > Yes, I just tried 2.6.20.3 with ACPI enabled and it booted perfectly.
> > > I'm hoping this means you know what's wrong? :-)
> >
> > Can you do a 'git bisect' on the versions between 2.6.20.3 and 2.6.20.7
> > to try to find the problem patch?
>
> Considering where it failed and that 2.6.20.3 worked, I would be
> extremely surprised if this wasn't one more report of
> adjust-legacy-ide-resource-setting.patch breaking booting (and we
> already have confirmed reports for this)...
>
> But AFAIK we still don't understand how this patch managed to break
> things.

Same here but 2.6.21 is near and we need to do something about this issue.

I'm thinking about reverting this patch for 2.6.21-final - having broken
X server is better than having broken and not booting kernel.

Jan, Alan?

Thanks,
Bart
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