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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one (was: 2.6.19 file content
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Gordon Farquharson wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, I cannot get the latest git version of the kernel to
> boot on the ARM machine on which Martin and I are experiencing the apt
> segfault.

Ouch.

> After the kernel is finished uncompressing it prints "done,
> booting the kernel." as expected, but nothing more happens. I have
> tried both with and without the patch. Hopefully either Andrei or
> Martin will have better luck at testing this patch than I have had.

That's obviously a bug worth fixing on its own. Do you know when it 
started?

That said, I think the patch I sent out should actually work on top of 
plain 2.6.19 too. I don't think things have changed in this area that 
much. IOW, you don't _need_ latest -git to test it, you just need a broken 
kernel ;)

		Linus