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Re: The time has come ...



On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Anton Blanchard wrote:

> 
> Hi Jules,
> 
> > > Are you using a cgsix framebuffer? The current kernels have a problem with
> > > the cgsix, which Davem narrowed down to the cg6_reset function.
> > > Do you get booted back to the PROM? If so can you get the results of:
> > > .locals .registers ctrace
> > > As well as your System.map
> 
> > Hmm.  It does sound exactly like that.
> > Unfortunately the PROM is rarely readable, since the CLUT has generally made
> > background == foreground.  However, I'll try to get those data.
> > How come I never read about this on sparclinux@vger?  Did I just miss it?
> 
> I found it at http://dm.cobaltmicro.com/~davem/ultra-todo.html
> 
> Let me know if this fixes your problem.

I will try your fix.

Unfortunately, kernels take many, many hours to compile here - so if you
happened to have a kernel binary to hand, I could check it much quicker
:-)

Jules

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