> 2.4.17-pre5 + ext3-2.4.17-pre2 will not boot on a Cyrix 6x86 P150+ (133mhz)
> with 64 megs of RAM (I believe the bios to be an AwardBIOS)
>
> Backing out all changes in arch/i386/kernel (changes from pre4 to pre5)
> allows to boot again. (I'm now writing this under -pre5 on the machine in
> question)
This doesn't make a lot of sense, as..
1. the dmi_scan changes shouldn't apply to your system unless you've
found a way to crowbar a 6x86 into a board with a l440GX chipset.
2. The Athlon SSE support is in an Athlon only path, so that never gets
run on your box
3. The P4 HT support is in CONFIG_SMP ifdefs, so never even got compiled
in. Likewise the smpboot.c changes.
*stumped*.
Can you rebuild from a clean tarball, patch straight up to pre5
and try and reproduce this ? I'm betting it won't happen and you had
some cruft from an old build making things go awry.
Dave.
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