On Fri, 6 May 2011 10:04:52 PM Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Chris Samuel <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Understood, I would guess that the SCSI one would map to the > > introduction of the async scsi scanning patch in 2.6.19-rc2 > > and its enablement in later Ubuntu kernels. > > Yeah. Async SCSI scanning was not supposed to break any existing > setup. Well that'd be about my luck at the moment. ;-) > > No idea on the APIC one but I'm happy to try and bisect both > > cases if you'd like me to try ? > > I could definitely do something about the APIC regression if > managed to narrow down the commit range (a specific guilty commit > would be fantastic of course). If the regression got introduced > after the e801 regression you'll need to run: > > git cherry-pick 39b68976ac65 > > at every bisection step that needs that fix - but still bisect as > if that extra commit was not there. (bisection will throw away > that cherry-picking temporary tree so you will have to re-pick the > commit again and again) That's great, will try and see what I can do. It might take a little bit of time due to work commitments prior to a (planned) trip to hospital next Thursday. > Note that during bisection the current tree might jump in and out > of regions that need this fix, so be prepared to have to do the > cherry-picking at random places. You can attempt the cherry-pick > at every step and you will get a conflict and it will not succeed > if the fix is not needed. You can throw away the conflicting state > via 'git reset --hard'. Understood, thanks! > > Indeed - though at the moment you can't even install a current > > Debian release as the boot loader on the install CD locks the > > box up. :-( > > Is that hang due to one of these 3 regressions - or is it a fourth > regression perhaps? This is before it boots the kernel, so I'd guess something in whatever they are using for the Squeeze install CD - perhaps grub2 now ? > While the installed base of your hardware is small, i think such > old-hardware testing is still very valuable feedback to us: it > gives us a feel for how corrosive our development process is to > long-term (10+ years) stability. Great, as long as this is more useful than just fixing my problems! cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP
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