From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751431AbWAOAGq (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:06:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751067AbWAOAGp (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:06:45 -0500 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:24744 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751330AbWAOAGp (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:06:45 -0500 From: Andi Kleen To: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.15-git breaks Xorg on em64t Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 01:05:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20060114065235.GA4539@redhat.com> <200601141943.28027.ak@suse.de> <20060114225137.GB23021@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20060114225137.GB23021@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601150105.08197.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 14 January 2006 23:51, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 07:43:27PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Saturday 14 January 2006 07:52, Dave Jones wrote: > > > Andi, > > > Sometime in the last week something was introduced to Linus' > > > tree which makes my dual EM64T go nuts when X tries to start. > > > By "go nuts", I mean it does various random things, seen so > > > far.. > > > - Machine check. (I'm convinced this isn't a hardware problem > > > despite the new addition telling me otherwise :) > > > > Normally it should be impossible to cause machine checks from software > > on Intel systems. > > -git7+ is the only time I've ever seen one on this box. What happens when you apply ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt/patches/page-table-setup ? Anyways, since there doesn't seem to be much interest in pretesting of x86-64 patches anymore before merge such things happen occassionally. -Andi