Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 10 Aug 1998 07:55:51 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Gerd Knorr <> | | Subject | Re: [patch #2] vesafb: panning and palette changes using bios |
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On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Shawn Leas wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Gerd Knorr wrote: > > > On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Alex Buell wrote: > > > > > > Next step ahead: vesafb uses the protected mode interface for palette > > > > changes too. > > > > > > Does it only does this on initialisation? > > > > No, for all palette changes. This should make gfx boards which have not > > the standard vga palette registers (MediaGX?) work with vesafb. Here is > > the patch (against vanilla 2.1.115). > > > > Gerd > > This patch causes me major oopsing... I have a ksymoops'ed, and raw, and > an strace of an offending zsh process that did it. Every time I tried to > do a history search, it oopsed. Sometimes oopsed maniacally on shutdown.
What does vesafb say at startup?
> >>EIP: c018839f <write_chan+14f/1e8> > Trace: c011bc4e <handle_mm_fault+c2/148> > Trace: c0179839 <tty_write+10d/15c> > Trace: c018839f <write_chan+14f/1e8> > Trace: c0124f50 <sys_write+c0/124> > Trace: c010a9c0 <system_call+34/38>
No fbcon here. Hmm, maybe the patch triggers some race in tty/console code?
Gerd
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