Re: Kernel broken for Apple powerbooks
On 8/28/20 3:44 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Seems like a pretty bad bandaid to turn off a useful debug feature on
> all systems just because you enable support for the ADB_PMU. It solves
> the problem for the affected apples, but is it worth the cost to all other
> 32 bit powerpc systems to make debuging some kernel problems much harder?
Not sure whether it's an actual problem because the majority of users with
a 32-bit kernel will be on Mac hardware, so the number of fixed systems
will certainly outweigh the number of systems which can't be debugged.
> Too bad that handling stuff is in assembly, that certainly reduces the
> number of people that could fix the actual problem.
I assume the bug should be fixed by the person who introduced the bug.
Adrian
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