Re: 2.5.70-bk radeonfb oops on boot.

Simon Fowler (simon@himi.org)
Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:19:26 +1000


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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:14:40PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Simon Fowler <simon@himi.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:16:54PM +1000, Simon Fowler wrote:
> > > I've started seeing a hard lockup on boot with my Fujitsu Lifebook
> > > p2120 laptop, with a radeon mobility M6 LY, when using a Linus bk
> > > kernel as of 2003-06-09 (possibly earlier - the last kernel I've
> > > tested is bk as of 2003-06-04). lspci lists this hardware:
> > >=20
> > I've narrowed the start of the problem down: 2.5.70-bk13 works,
> > -bk14 oopses.=20
>=20
> That's funny. bk13->bk14 was almost all arm stuff. diffstat below.
>=20
> It might be worth reverting this chunk, see if that fixes it:
>=20
> --- b/drivers/char/mem.c Thu Jun 5 23:36:40 2003
> +++ b/drivers/char/mem.c Sun Jun 8 05:02:24 2003
> @@ -716 +716 @@
> -__initcall(chr_dev_init);
> +subsys_initcall(chr_dev_init);
>=20
And we have a winner . . . Reverting this hunk fixes the oops.

Simon

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