On Sunday, 23 of December 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc6/2.6.24-rc6-mm1/
> 
> - This kernel doesn't work on i386!
> 
>   It oopses late in boot due to an unrevertable change (e3c1b141) in git-x86
>   which I stared at for a while then I ran out of time and gave up.
> 
>   I would have just abandoned this release until it was fixed but I'll be
>   largely offline for ten days starting tomorrow.
> 
>   The culprits have been notified and hopefully we'll have a patch for
>   hot-fixes/ tomorrow.
> 
>   x86_64 and powerpc work OK though.

Well it doesn't build on x86-64 for me:

  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  CC      arch/x86/ia32/../../../fs/compat_binfmt_elf.o
Assembler messages:
Fatal error: can't create arch/x86/ia32/../../../fs/.tmp_compat_binfmt_elf.o: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [arch/x86/ia32/../../../fs/compat_binfmt_elf.o] Error 2

I will post the .config if anyone is interested.

Thanks,
Rafael