David Miller writes: > From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:55:50 +0100 > > > Minor update: rc2-git7 has the slow initial console behaviour, > > but successfully switches to the framebuffer. rc2-git8 however > > hangs in the console handover. So I'll bisect git7->git8 next. > > Between the VT layer registering it's console and the atyfb > driver initializing we get a crash, and it happens on all > sparc64 systems. It is caused by this commit and I am working > on a fix: > > commit a0c1e9073ef7428a14309cba010633a6cd6719ea > Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat Feb 23 15:23:57 2008 -0800 > > futex: runtime enable pi and robust functionality My git7->git8 bisection yesterday independently also arrived at that specific commit as being the culprit. Bracketing the offending cmpxchg_futex_value_locked(NULL, 0, 0) call with #if 0 .. #endif was enough to make my kernel boot. I'll try your do_kernel_fault() patch later today. /Mikael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
