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Re: Debian kernel regression, was Re: Modernizing a Macintosh LC III



On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
>>> Surprise 2: Instead of a deadly non-Mac driver, I found a deadly Mac driver.
>>> When passing "debug=ser", it crashes with:
>>
>> The __pmz_startup() crash could be expected regardless of "debug=ser", no?
>
> Yes, that's why I asked Thorsten if the image worked on ARAnyM.

I can trigger it on ARAnyM too, using "debug=par console=ttyS0".

init_pmz() doesn't crash because it re-checks pmz_ports_count after calling
pmz_probe().

pmz_console_init() doesn't do that, so it still registered the console, and
caused a crash later.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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