Re: State of the Linux PCI and PCI Hotplug Subsystems for 2.6.16-rc5

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On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 11:49 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> > > 
> > >   "Fedora rawhide kernel stopped booting for a bunch of people, all with 
> > >    686-SMP boxes. I saw it myself too, it hung just after the 'write 
> > >    protecting kernel rodata'.
> > > 
> > 
> >   Ubuntu has similar problem:
> > https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/29601
> >  I believe Ubuntu's 2.6.15 source is vanilla+git patches.
> 
> Interesting. He also apparently boots with "noapic nolapic" on the "386" 
> kernel, but not the "686" kernel.


hmm curious; I wonder if the "weird" (as in, Arjan considers it a stupid
idea and broken) "enable APIC on UP but not really" patch is at fault
here, which isn't in mainline....


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