On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:22:37AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:56:09 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > * Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Dhaval Giani wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Andrew, Ingo, Thomas, Peter, > > > > > > > > x86: revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem > > > > > > > > The patch caused a failure while booting a kexec kernel. > > > > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/7/42 has the bisect details.) > > > > > > > > The following patch reverts it. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > Thanks for tracking this down. I'll pull the patch from the x86 git > > > tree as well. > > > > Dhaval, how about the other problem you had - do you have any guess > > what it might be related to? > > > > i'm also wondering - what would be the easiest way to integrate kexec > > into an automated test environment. If i have a bzImage kernel, is kexec > > still supposed to work? Could i for example do a reboot into a new > > (kexec-enabled) kernel via kexec in essence? > > My daily/nightly kernel test runs use kexec to boot the test kernel. > Well, did thru 2.6.24-rc6-git9, but they fail after that. > Hopefully this patch fixes things. >
hmmm. I don't think so. This revert is from the x86 git tree (-mm) (I think targetted for 2.6.25). Probably a bisect might help there. -- regards, Dhaval -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
