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  1. Bug #63134
  2. Comment #48

Comment 48 for bug 63134

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Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote : Re: Kernel panic - not syncing, when installing Edgy Beta1

Hi All,

Just wanted to add some information. . .First, the patch mentioned here http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/17/62 was automatically included in both the Feisty and Gusty releases. This is because the Ubuntu kernel syncs with the upstream kernel.

NoWhereMan, thank you for the reference to the bugzilla.kernel.org report. However, I'm a little concerned with some of the comments posted by the developer of the patch:

"But in fact the above problems are related to BIOS. So it is more appropriate to fix this bug by updateing BIOS than the workaround patch."

and

"The above two patches in comment #127 and #128 can fix the problems for this bug. But they seem ugly and I am not willing to send the patches to kernel."

Have you actually verified these patches resolve your issue? It is a lot of extra work for the Ubuntu kernel team to maintain out of tree patches. As such they require evidence of upstream submission before considering to maintain community patches locally. Since the developer of the patches commented he's unwilling to send the patches upstream, this might not qualify against the team's standard. Also is seems the patches are really just to bandaid a buggy BIOS, in which case I'm not sure they'd be accepted upstream nor maintained separately for Ubuntu. I'll defer to the kernel team for their comment. Thanks.