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Re: TEST: Sleep suppport for iBook G4 & Aluminium PowerBooks (ATI based)



On 19 Nov 2004 at 21h11, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

Hi, 

> What is the actual warning ?

"Null argument where non-null required" - approx, the log message scrolled
out of buffer before I could copy it.

> This code is run within the OF environment where memory is mapped 1:1,
> and whith the kernel still located at a different place than it's native
> address (0). This code copies the first 0x100 bytes of kernel code down
> to that location (which doesn't contain anything useful, the first
> exception vector is at 0x100). This piece of code contains a special
> loop used for holding other CPUs until the kernel actually puts them
> online. It's only used on CHRP machines, PowerMacs use a different
> mecanism to get the CPUs online.

Ok, thanks :)
-- 
Colin



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