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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc1: NVRAM being corrupted on ppc64 preventing boot (bisected)
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:18:38 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18698.59790.393775.139313@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081031103646.GA24395@csn.ul.ie>

Mel Gorman writes:

> Yaboot in my case and I've heard it affected a DVD installation. I don't
> know for sure if it affects netboot but as I think it's something the
> kernel is doing, it probably doesn't matter how it gets loaded?

I do need to know whether it was the vmlinux or the zImage.pseries
that you were loading with yaboot.  That commit you identified affects
the contents of an ELF note in the zImage.pseries that firmware looks
at, as well as a structure in the kernel itself that gets passed as an
argument to a call to firmware.  If you were loading a vmlinux with
yaboot when you saw the corruption occur then that narrows things down
a bit.

Paul.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-31 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-24  4:10 Linux 2.6.28-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2008-10-24  4:14 ` Roland Dreier
2008-10-24 18:08   ` Greg KH
2008-10-24 11:24 ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-10-24 11:45   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-24 12:52     ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-10-24 13:13       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-24 14:56         ` git-clean [Was: Linux 2.6.28-rc1] Björn Steinbrink
2008-10-24 15:17       ` Linux 2.6.28-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2008-10-24 19:22         ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-10-24 22:31         ` David Miller
2008-10-24 22:51           ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-10-24 19:15   ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-10-24 23:44     ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-10-24 17:09 ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-24 17:54   ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-24 17:57     ` Randy Dunlap
2008-10-24 18:05       ` Fenghua Yu
2008-10-24 18:11         ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-24 22:28 ` nf_conntrack oopes on parisc/smp (was Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc1) Domenico Andreoli
2008-10-24 22:53 ` Linux 2.6.28-rc1 Tony Vroon
2008-10-24 23:01   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-26 13:17     ` Tony Vroon
2008-10-30 14:26 ` 2.6.28-rc1: NVRAM being corrupted on ppc64 preventing boot (bisected) Mel Gorman
2008-10-30 20:52   ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-30 21:05     ` Josh Boyer
2008-10-30 21:35       ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-10-31 10:36     ` Mel Gorman
2008-10-31 11:10       ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-31 11:31         ` Mel Gorman
2008-10-31 18:36         ` Mel Gorman
2008-10-31 11:18       ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2008-10-31 11:31         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-31 11:56           ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-31 11:32         ` Mel Gorman

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