Re: Debian non-x86 kernel arches
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 07:00:56PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 06:42:32PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Christoph Hellwig writes:
> >
> > > Feel free to send forward bugs for filled against your
> > > kernel-image-powerpc forward upstream.
> >
> > The serial driver hangs the Powermac G5.
The legacy-peecee 16550 uart serial driver probes IO addresses blindly.
You need the driver built in for IBM pSeries machines, and the G5 gets
real unhappy when the driver probes nonexistant IO addresses.
G4's had the same problem, except paulus/benh came up with a nice hack
to trap the machine-check exception that occured and just print a
warning.
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