[Try again, with a Subject this time ...] The git-block patches in 2.6.23-mm1 freeze my ia64 SN Altix hard on boot. Not good (tm).
Something broke between the git-block patch of Sept 26 in 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 and the git-block patches of Oct 10-11 in 2.6.23-mm1 on my ia64 SN Altix system using sn2_defconfig. Bisecting 2.6.23-mm1 narrows the problem down to the git-block patches: git-block.patch git-block-fixup-1.patch git-block-fixup.patch git-block-fixup-fix.patch git-block-borkages.patch git-block-s390-fix.patch I can boot 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 fine, but I freeze early in boot on 2.6.23-mm1, after the following prints on the console: McKinley Errata 9 workaround not needed; disabling it SLUB: Genslabs=26, HWalign=128, Order=0-2, MinObjects=8, CPUs=8, Nodes=1024 Dentry cache hash table entries: 1048576 (order: 9, 8388608 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 8, 4194304 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 ACPI: Core revision 20070126 Boot processor id 0x0/0x0 Brought up 8 CPUs Total of 8 processors activated (15564.80 BogoMIPS). The next output that I -would- have expected, based on successful boots without these patches, but never get, is: net_namespace: 120 bytes DMI not present or invalid. xor: measuring software checksum speed ia64 : 2692.000 MB/sec xor: using function: ia64 (2692.000 MB/sec) NET: Registered protocol family 16 ACPI DSDT OEM Rev 0x20101 -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.925.600.0401 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/