On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:59:29 -0700, Jesse Allen the3dfxdude@gmail.com wrote:
You need to make sure that 2.6.8 works and 2.6.9-rc1 or 2 breaks it, for this to be the same case. I know the initial two patches did touch amd64, and the later fixes have not been migrated to amd64.
Here Andi Kleen expresses a dislike for an amd64 version of a patch that broke 2.6.9-rc1 on my x86 system: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110379910702995&w=2
The patch link: http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@412a49d0Duv_YlSqDMoYxkNhiBwoWw?n...
Also here Andi speaks about the complexity of Linus' fixes and the problem of porting it to x86-64. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110444869225886&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110445367319392&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110449669800844&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110451344128991&w=2
Entire thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=110055970800001&r=1&w=2
My guess x86-64 hasn't been looked at since this last time. You need to make sure this is the same problem.
Jesse