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From: "Anvin, H Peter" <h.peter.anvin@intel.com>
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:08:07 -0800
Subject: RE: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 doesn't boot
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(The patch will need to be paired with removing the hacks in the linker script.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Ingo Molnar [mailto:mingo@elte.hu] 
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 3:26 AM
To: Li, Shaohua
Cc: Anvin, H Peter; Markus Trippelsdorf; Lu, Hongjiu; Linus Torvalds; Linux Kernel Mailing List; Sam Ravnborg
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 doesn't boot


* Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> wrote:

> it's not a build failure, without it, my i386 kernel can't boot
> actually.

Please try hpa's patch in this thread on top of very latest (today's) -git or latest 
-tip:

   http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README

Does that result in a booting system? That way we can avoid most of the linker 
script madness.

Thanks,

	Ingo