All kernels since 2.6.5 oops when booted on popular Intel mainboards (e.g. i865GBF). The bug has been verified by a lot of people (see link). Redhat has already fixed this in their kernel, but the official vanilla sources still don't include this till up to 2.6.8. It would be nice if the Redhat patch (see link) could be merged into gentoo-dev-sources. It works perfectly. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Have a Intel D865GLC, 865GBF or D875PBZ board ready. 2.Compile a 2.6.5 kernel with SMP, ACPI support enabled.. 3.Compile a 2.6.7 kernel, same config. Actual Results: 2.6.5. will work (probably). Same config with >2.6.7 will crash when booted on certain popular Intel mainboards. Expected Results: Machine should be able to boot up, as regular! Follow link for additional info and workarounds. Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.7-gentoo-r14) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r14 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dga dvd dvdr dvdread encode flac gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc mpeg mysql mythtv ncurses nls nvidia oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
Does gentoo-dev-sources (2.6.8) include the fix for this problem? Glancing over the redhat page doesn't really give me a clear answer.
Could you please send the RedHat patch to the upstream kernel.org developers by filing a bug at bugme.osdl.org so the issue can be rectified and the patch can be accepted upstream since the issue is in the underlying kernel.org code rather than the patchset? Thanks!
