final kernel biult

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 08:48:08PM -0700, Michael Thomas wrote:
 > Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 06:45:56PM -0700, Michael Thomas wrote:
 > > 
 > >  > >  > for me, 3168.
 > >  > >  > maxcpus=1 works for later later kernels (3194, 3201)
 > >  > >  > 
 > >  > >  > For posterity, see also:
 > >  > >  > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/241249
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > Trying to spot a pattern here is hard. Because so far, it seems to be all Dell
 > >  > > users, but not all Dell core-duo laptops seem to be affected.
 > >  > > My precision M65 for instance is fine.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Apparently the problem is not even consistent across models.  My
 > >  > Precision M65 is affected.  Booting with maxcpus=1 fixes it.
 > > 
 > > Argh!
 > > Can people seeing this problem try out kernel-2.6.21-1.3206.fc7
 > > from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/fc7/
 > 
 > I didn't see that build at the url you gave

Ah, I need to teach my mirroring script how to cope with freezes :)

 > , but I grabbed the 3206
 > build from koji.  build 3206 boots just fine for me now, while 3194
 > continues to hang.

Ok, that's good to know.  That narrows it down to something in 2.6.21.2
I'm still not entirely sure *which* patch in that update caused the
problem, so I'll do a few more builds to try and narrow things down
further.

Thanks for testing.

	Dave

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