Subject: Re: Kernel oops while duming user core.

From: Nathan Lynch <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:54:29 -0600

Rune Torgersen wrote:
> Kumar Gala wrote:
> > Can you git-bisect to narrow this down further.
> 
> Not easilly, as the board port to arch/powerpc was done on 2.6.24-rc7
> and up.
> Is there an somewhat esy way in git to apply the differences from master
> branch to our board branch to a branch created by bisect?
> 
> And I don't even know where this started to happen.
> Would trying arch/ppc help any? I have our arch/ppc port in a
> semiworking state for kernels up to 2.6.23

Well, we know this happens on other 32-bit powerpc machines (pmac at
least)... perhaps someone could arrange to bisect on a machine that
works with older powerpc kernels (assuming they have a good repro
case).