On Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 10:40 PM Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 04:31:47AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > I used a Core2Duo for about 6 years. It is a native x86_64 system, > but can > > > run 32-bit kernels and thus 32-bit systems. > > > > > No idea what the bug on x86_64 is, I'm behind on reading lkml, but I > > think it is likely that 'i386' might mean 'on x86 machines running > > as 32-bit'. > > > > And apparently there is a one patch revision for 4.17.8 due on > > Thursday, no idea if it might help or not: > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/17/443 > > > > and > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/17/505 > > > It *does* affect all 32-bit x86 : > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/16/809 > > > Qemu test results: > > total: 171 pass: 159 fail: 12 > > Failed tests: > > i386:Broadwell:q35:defconfig:smp:rootfs > > i386:Skylake-Client:q35:defconfig:smp:rootfs > > i386:SandyBridge:q35:defconfig:smp:rootfs > > i386:Haswell:pc:defconfig:smp:rootfs > > i386:Nehalem:q35:defconfig:smp:rootfs > > i386:phenom:pc:defconfig:smp:rootfs > > i386:Opteron_G5:q35:defconfig:smp:initrd > > i386:Westmere:q35:defconfig:smp:initrd > > i386:core2duo:q35:defconfig:nosmp:rootfs > > i386:Conroe:pc:defconfig:nosmp:rootfs > > i386:Opteron_G1:pc:defconfig:nosmp:initrd > > i386:n270:q35:defconfig:nosmp:rootfs > > > > All 32-bit i386 boot tests crash. > > And the reply was that the known fix is not yet in Linus's tree, so > it can't be applied to stable until Linus commits it. > > So the one patch in 4.17.8-rc won't help 32-bit. > > ĸen > -- > Keyboard not found, Press F1 to continue > Guys, Heads up, this is affecting sporadic x86_64 PCs too. A sizable chunk of my 64bit machines refuse to boot with 4.17.7 and even a few 32bit ones with 4.17.6. There is obviously something wrong here that needs fixing. >
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