Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:55:59 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: problem with vgacon on Alphas |
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> after some reports about freezing Alpha machines with 2.1.113 as soon > as someone switches from X to a normal console. I've tried it myself and > my machine also stopped after I pressed CTRL-ALT-F1 under X. > > I've tracked the problem down (serial console is your friend) to > a memcpy_from(), where the source is a kernel address, which is > a no no on Alphas. Below is a patch, which fixes this problem. > > I hope the patch will make into one of the next kernels.
OK, I've modified it a bit and added to my other console patches.
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam."
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