Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:30:19 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs |
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> The other an automated set of standard pre-built bisection points so > that testers can more easily localize a bug down to a few hundred > commits without needing to learn how to use "git bisect" (think Ubuntu > users).
Before that you want a flowchart or instruction list of boot options to try. A lot of errors can be localised simply by asking the reported to boot with things like "iommu=off", "pci=routeirq", "apci=off" etc
That takes a lot less time to run through and can be very informative.
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