Details of problems caused by Tecra patch required
Hi,
I sent some mail to the author of the Tecra kernel patch, Jens Maurer
<jmaurer@menuett.rhein-main.de>, and he replies thus:
> Philip Hands wrote:
> > One thing that I thought you might be interested in is that for a while
> > during testing, the kernel patch was included on the soon to be released
> > Debian (1.3) boot disk.
>
> Yes, someone told me that.
>
> > This has now been removed, because it caused a number of non-tecra users
> > problems. Some of them were unable to boot.
>
> That's bad news. I will refrain from submitting the patch to Linus in
> the current form then.
> Could you please elaborate on which setup these people used?
> I would be glad to get in contact with one of these for testing
> further patches.
>
> Jens.
So could anyone who experienced the problem with this patch, please contact
either me or Jens with details of what hardware it happened on, and maybe we
can come up with a patch that works for everyone.
The problem the patch was causing was described by Dale Scheetz as:
> I gets to the point just before "uncompressing kernel" and locks with the
> error: A20 gating failure.
Cheers, Phil.
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