Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:27:43 -0400 | From | Woody Suwalski <> | Subject | Re: Yet another 2.6.35 regression (AGP)? |
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Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:21:56 -0400 > Woody Suwalski<terraluna977@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I have found one system, where 2.6.35 does not work (as tested with rc3 >> and rc4) >> That Intel system has no problems in 2.6.33.x nor 2.6.34.0. >> >> The problem seems to be in AGP - I can boot if I specify "agp=off" - but >> of course only in text mode... >> There seems to be a hard lock-up, so the only way to show the crash is >> by picture 8-) >> >> Since I do not build kernel on that machine, I did not do any bisect >> tests, however if someone is interested in digging deeper, I can try... >> Preferably a patch to try out ;-) >> >> This bug seems to be different then >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16179 >> >> Should it be blamed on BIOS (the conflict indicated just before the crash)? >> > Well even if the BIOS is doing something bad, if we handled it in > earlier kernels we should handle it today. So this sounds like a > regression. > > A bisect should help if it was working before, can you do that? > > OK, I have never really done the brute-force bissecting, but there is always first time... Will try to do it over the weekend...
Unless U will be visiting Ottawa and want to do it yourself ;-)
Woody
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