Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.15-git breaks Xorg on em64t | | Date | Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:43:27 +0100 |
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On Saturday 14 January 2006 07:52, Dave Jones wrote: > Andi, > Sometime in the last week something was introduced to Linus' > tree which makes my dual EM64T go nuts when X tries to start. > By "go nuts", I mean it does various random things, seen so > far.. > - Machine check. (I'm convinced this isn't a hardware problem > despite the new addition telling me otherwise :)
Normally it should be impossible to cause machine checks from software on Intel systems.
> - Reboot > - Total lockup > - NMI watchdog firing, and then lockup > > I've tried backing out a handful of the x86-64 patches, and > didn't get too far, as some of them are dependant on others, > it quickly became a real mess to try to bisect where exactly it broke.\
Shouldn't be too bad - i did a binary search for something else and it worked pretty well. > > Any ideas for potential candidates to try & back out ?
Does it work when you revert all x86-64 changes?
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