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Re: [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] BUG: spinlock bad magic early during boot

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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Cc: Eric Piel <Eric.Piel@...>, Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...>, Dave Hansen <haveblue@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Thomas Renninger <trenn@...>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...>, Markus Gaugusch <dsdt@...>, <linux-acpi@...>, Al Viro <viro@...>, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@...>
Date: Monday, March 17, 2008 - 1:59 pm

> For things like DVD install images, you'd quite possibly want to have a 

For a Linux distro to ship DSDT override images, they'd have to
have some licensing & support arrangement with the OEM
who actually owns that BIOS code.

While this wouldn't defy any laws of physics, it doesn't
look compatible with current industry business practices.

OEMs are more likely to simply ship a BIOS update ISO.

-Len

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2.6.25-rc5-mm1, Andrew Morton, (Tue Mar 11, 4:14 am)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 sparc64 boot problems due to generic pci_..., Mariusz Kozlowski, (Fri Mar 28, 6:52 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 sparc64 boot problems due to generic pci_..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Fri Mar 28, 8:44 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 build failure of pcsp.c, Mariusz Kozlowski, (Sun Mar 16, 5:38 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1: "consolechars" hangs on boot, Laurent Riffard, (Thu Mar 13, 6:07 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1: "consolechars" hangs on boot, Andrew Morton, (Thu Mar 13, 6:38 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1: "consolechars" hangs on boot, Oleg Nesterov, (Fri Mar 14, 1:26 am)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1: "consolechars" hangs on boot, Laurent Riffard, (Fri Mar 14, 5:06 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1: "consolechars" hangs on boot, Oleg Nesterov, (Sat Mar 15, 8:03 am)
Re: [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] regression: cannot run Postfix sendmail..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Thu Mar 20, 6:21 am)
Re: [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] regression: cannot run Postfix sendmail..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Thu Mar 20, 10:38 am)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 shutdown crash, Helge Hafting, (Thu Mar 13, 10:03 am)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 shutdown crash, Andrew Morton, (Thu Mar 13, 12:12 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 shutdown crash, Helge Hafting, (Tue Mar 25, 8:23 am)
[2.6.25-rc5-mm1] WARNING: at drivers/base/sys.c:173, Tilman Schmidt, (Wed Mar 12, 8:15 pm)
Re: [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] WARNING: at drivers/base/sys.c:173, Tilman Schmidt, (Thu Mar 13, 8:01 pm)
Re: [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] WARNING: at drivers/base/sys.c:173, Tilman Schmidt, (Sat Mar 15, 8:16 am)
Re: [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] WARNING: at drivers/base/sys.c:173, Tilman Schmidt, (Fri Mar 14, 5:58 am)
[2.6.25-rc5-mm1] BUG: spinlock bad magic early during boot, Tilman Schmidt, (Wed Mar 12, 7:54 pm)
Re: [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] BUG: spinlock bad magic early during boot, Len Brown, (Mon Mar 17, 1:59 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 - x86_64 boot problem ?, Badari Pulavarty, (Wed Mar 12, 2:10 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 - x86_64 boot problem ?, Andrew Morton, (Wed Mar 12, 2:15 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 - x86_64 boot problem with git-sched.patch, Badari Pulavarty, (Thu Mar 13, 1:09 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 - x86_64 boot problem with git-sched.patch, Badari Pulavarty, (Thu Mar 13, 1:40 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 - x86_64 boot problem with git-sched.patch, Guillaume Chazarain, (Thu Mar 13, 1:55 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 - x86_64 boot problem with git-sched.patch, Badari Pulavarty, (Thu Mar 13, 2:20 pm)
Re: [BUG] 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 kernel panic with "Exception: 501 "..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Wed Mar 12, 4:40 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1, Dave Young, (Tue Mar 11, 9:14 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1, , (Tue Mar 11, 4:23 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1, Andrew Morton, (Tue Mar 11, 4:39 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Wed Mar 12, 3:33 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1, Andrew Morton, (Wed Mar 12, 3:44 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Wed Mar 12, 4:01 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1, Torsten Kaiser, (Thu Mar 13, 6:05 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1, Andrew Morton, (Thu Mar 13, 6:35 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1, Badari Pulavarty, (Thu Mar 13, 7:10 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1, Ingo Molnar, (Fri Mar 21, 8:12 am)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 (paravirt/vsmp/no PCI), Randy Dunlap, (Tue Mar 11, 1:09 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 (paravirt/vsmp/no PCI), Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Mar 11, 2:18 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 (paravirt/vsmp/no PCI), Ravikiran G Thirumalai, (Tue Mar 11, 8:10 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 (paravirt/vsmp/no PCI), Ingo Molnar, (Wed Mar 12, 3:14 am)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 (paravirt/vsmp/no PCI), Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Mar 11, 9:51 pm)
Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 (paravirt/vsmp/no PCI), Randy Dunlap, (Tue Mar 11, 9:42 pm)
Re: [Build Failure] 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 Build fails with allmodco..., Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz..., (Tue Mar 11, 3:36 pm)
Re: [Build Failure] 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 Build fails with allmodco..., Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz..., (Tue Mar 11, 3:35 pm)
[Build Faliure] 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 build fails , Kamalesh Babulal, (Tue Mar 11, 6:16 am)
Re: [Build Faliure] 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 build fails, Edward Shishkin, (Tue Mar 11, 6:56 am)
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