Re: 2.5.67-mm1 cause framebuffer crash at bootup

Randy.Dunlap (rddunlap@osdl.org)
Wed, 9 Apr 2003 15:55:38 -0700


On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 23:52:51 +0200 "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz> wrote:

| On 9 Apr 03 at 14:45, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
| > [<c029367a>] fbcon_set_display+0x33a/0x4c0
| > [<c01f8031>] set_inverse_transl+0x41/0xa0
|
| Can you remove 'printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: %ux%u, vt=%u, init=%u, ...'
| from fbcon_set_display (drivers/video/console/fbcon.c)? On my system
| printk(KERN_DEBUG) does not print nothing to the console even before
| syslogd is started (one wonders why...), but on your system it apparently
| triggers output to console before video mode was set.

Yes, I did that and can report that this one printk() kills it for me.
I.e., it boots and runs fine with this line commented out, but when I
put it back and rebuild, that kernel gets the same oops during boot.

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~Randy
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