Re: BenH kernel weirdness

2001-04-20 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>Maybe BenH would like some info on what you where typing when it happened >:-) Don't worry about this message, it's harmless (unless you get something different than -1 or -2 as the value). It's a kind of debug stuff I added to check that the CPU wouldn't miss a DEC interrupt when put in NAP mod

Re: BenH kernel weirdness

2001-04-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > However, a few hours later as I'm typing away, I glance in the top left > corner of the screen, and I see that the GNOME panel has been overwritten > by a "it came from the depths of the kernel" type error message that said > > Negative DEC -1 >

Re: BenH kernel weirdness

2001-04-20 Thread Michel Lanners
On 19 Apr, this message from Wilhelm Fitzpatrick echoed through cyberspace: > However, a few hours later as I'm typing away, I glance in the top left > corner of the screen, and I see that the GNOME panel has been overwritten > by a "it came from the depths of the kernel" type error message that s

BenH kernel weirdness

2001-04-19 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
I compiled and updated to yesterdays BenH 2.3.4pre3 from an older BenH 2.3.3, because Ben had alluded to adding some basic power management stuff for the TiBooks. I have to say that the new kernel seems to run significantly cooler than the old one (I 'book was getting hot enough that I started to