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Bug#579393: linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64: kernel crashes at booting when QLogic IB7220 firmware not available



On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 13:33 +0200, Sebastian Hegler wrote:
> > <0001-ipath-Fix-probe-failure-path.patch>
> 
> I'm sorry to report that your patch did not fix the issue. 
> 
> See "fail_2.png" attached: Compared with the previous one, the
> difference now is that the interrupt is being disabled. 

This is correct behaviour when the firmware is not installed.  So I'm
going to include the change to ib_ipath in the next kernel package
version (2.6.32-20).

> That, however, does not stop the system from crashing erratically:
> sometimes it just freezes hard (as in "fail_2.png"), sometimes I get a
> piece of a kernel backtrace, sometimes I get a full one which is
> larger than a screen of text (as in "fail_1.png").

This seems to be a separate bug.  If you can reproduce this kind of
crash with that version, please make a new bug report.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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