David Woodhouse wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 14:26 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14003 >>> Summary: Infinite loop on bootup while handling DMAR >> That's a box-killing post-2.6.30 regression. > > It's a BIOS bug -- the user's BIOS is written by idiots who obviously > shipped it without any QA whatsoever. Matt may be wondering why he was addressed, since the bugzilla entry mentions only a bug in HP's BIOS. I'm experiencing the same bug on a newly bought Dell Optiplex 760 with BIOS version A03, as explained in my mail in lkml, <4A89CB52.4030008@xxxxxxxxxx>, subject "[regression, bisected] fails to boot on Dell Optiplex 760 with VT-d enabled". Thanks, Faidon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html