Re: [BISECTED][REGRESSION] Kernel does not boot on EeePC

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/08/2014 02:45 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> The latest kernel (c593e8978722f7f4a12932733cfeed6c0c74fbaa) refuses to
>> boot on my EeePC - after grub is finished the screen just remains black
>> and the only thing that does something is pressing the power button. The
>> problem commit seems to be:
>>
>> commit 3e1a878b7ccdb31da6d9d2b855c72ad87afeba3f
>> Author: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Thu Jun 5 15:42:45 2014 +0200
>>
>>     x86/smpboot: Initialize secondary CPU only if master CPU will wait for it
> 
> Argh, and have read this just a minute after expressing my hope that 
> the hotplug fix is correct :-/
> 
> Linus, please revert commit 3e1a878b7ccdb.
> 
>   Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 

I really want to say *THANK YOU* to Sitsofe for a very timely and
complete report.  You really saved us some highly valuable time.

	-hpa


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