Re: console remains blanked

2005-07-15 Thread Albert Herranz
Hi Ben, --- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Yes. We discussed that with Linus back then. The > problem is that the > printk subsystem tend to abuse calling low level > drivers at interrupt > time, and in the case of blanking/unblanking, this > can be a problem. > Radeonfb f

Re: console remains blanked

2005-07-14 Thread Albert Herranz
Hi, --- Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > The console is unblanked when you hit a key (or > probably move a mouse too), > not when some application outputs something on > stdout/stderr/etc. Before 2.6.12-rc2, the console was unblanked by just writing to the console. For keyboardles

console remains blanked

2005-07-13 Thread Albert Herranz
Hi, Looks like, since [1] was merged, a blanked console (due to inactivity for example) doesn't get unblanked anymore when new output is written to it. This hunk of the already metioned patch, which modifies vt_console_print() in drivers/char/vt.c, is possibly the cause: @@ -2220,9 +2220,6 @@

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc2] kexec-ppc: fix for ksysfs crash_notes

2005-07-08 Thread Albert Herranz
Hi, Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The following patch prevents the crash dump helper code found within kexec from breaking ppc which still lacks crash dump functionality. As discussed in [1], ksysfs crash_notes attribute handling was left under CONFIG_KEXEC for simp

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc4-mm1] kexec: ppc: fix NORET_TYPE

2005-02-24 Thread Albert Herranz
Hi, On ppc machine_kexec.c, we must apply NORET_TYPE to machine_kexec() as it does not return, and make it noreturn (otherwise compiler complains). NORET_TYPE is in fact not needed for machine_kexec_simple(). Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz Cheers, Albert

Re: ppc32 MMCR0_PMXE saga.

2005-02-03 Thread Albert Herranz
--- Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I'm at a loss to explain whats been happening with > this symbol. My patch was against the -mm series, as reported in the original subject. In the -mm series, the perfctr-ppc.patch already defines that symbol. As that patch contains all the perfctr

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: kernel bad access while booting diskless client

2005-01-27 Thread Albert Herranz
--- Andreas Gruenbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hello again, > > this looks like a good candidate. Could you please > try if it fixes the > problem? The Oops went away with this one. > Thanks, Your welcome. Cheers, Albert __

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: kernel bad access while booting diskless client

2005-01-27 Thread Albert Herranz
--- Andreas Gruenbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hello, > > here is a fix for a NULL pointer access problem with > NFSv2 that isn't in > 2.6.11-rc2-mm1, but it can't explain this NULL > inode->i_op. > > -- Andreas. Hi, Yes, that patch seems unrelated. Same Oops with or without it. Tha

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: kernel bad access while booting diskless client

2005-01-27 Thread Albert Herranz
--- Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Can you tell us which filesystem is being bad? Add > this: > > if (!inode->i_op) > printk("%s is naughty\n", inode->i_sb->s_id); > > It's probably NFS - there has been some work done in > there in -mm. 0:a is naughty Cheer

2.6.11-rc2-mm1: kernel bad access while booting diskless client

2005-01-27 Thread Albert Herranz
Hi, I'm getting a kernel Oops while booting 2.6.11-rc2-mm1 on a diskless (nfsroot based) embedded ppc system. Vanilla 2.6.11-rc2 works Ok. [...] VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k init INIT: version 2.86 booting Oops: kernel access of bad area, sig: 11

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc2-mm1] perfctl-ppc: fix duplicate mmcr0 define

2005-01-26 Thread Albert Herranz
Hi, This small patch fixes a compilation warning due to a duplicate definition of MMCR0_PMXE. The definition comes in perfctr-ppc.patch, but was recently introduced too in Linus tree. Cheers, Albert __ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ¡