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    SubjectRe: [Bug #13941] x86 Geode issue
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    On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki<rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
    > On Thursday 13 August 2009, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
    >> 2009/8/13 Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@iki.fi>:
    >> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Ingo Molnar<mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
    >> >> * Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@iki.fi> wrote:
    >> >>> Yes, this bug is still valid.
    >> >>>
    >> >>> Ubuntu kernel team member Leann Ogasawara and I are slowly
    >> >>> bisecting our way through the changes that took place since 2.6.30
    >> >>> to find the commit that introduced this regression. Please stay
    >> >>> tuned.
    >> >>
    >> >> hm, the only outright Geode related commit was:
    >> >>
    >> >>  d6c585a: x86: geode: Mark mfgpt irq IRQF_TIMER to prevent resume failure
    >> >>
    >> >> the jpg at:
    >> >>
    >> >>  http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28892781/00002.jpg
    >> >>
    >> >> is very out of focus - but what i could decypher suggests a
    >> >> pagefault crash in the VFS code, in generic_delete_inode().
    >>
    >> This one might be a bit better:
    >>
    >> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30267494/2.6.31-5.24.jpg
    >>
    >> >> Which could be a VFS bug, or a filesystem bug, or some unrelated
    >> >> memory corruption hitting the inode data structure.
    >> >
    >> > It could indeed be many things.
    >> >
    >> > I've been trying to boot this into a larger framebuffer to be able to
    >> > fit more data into my snapshots, but it appears that vga=795 doesn't
    >> > work anymore. Have we reverted to Hex values again or is this just an
    >> > issue of some kernel module missing from initrd?
    >>
    >> Never mind. Seems that vesafb was blacklisted. Works now. See the
    >> image above. :)
    >
    > OK, so I guess the bug should be closed?

    No, it cannot. Please read the above more carefully.

    Martin-Éric
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