Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: AMD SC410 boot problems with recent kernels | Date | 23 Dec 2001 02:19:32 -0800 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112231009500.10528-100000@callisto.local> By author: Robert Schwebel <robert@schwebel.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Could you elaborate why you think that the old code worked only by > accident? [please be patient - I'm no native speaker and it may be that I > do sometimes not understand everything correctly. I'm trying hard.] As I > said above: before I do not understand _why_ the new code breaks it's > rather difficult to draw conclusions. > > If the board is really _broken_ I have no problem with the fact that in > the future the manufacturer has either to supply a correct BIOS or a > workaround patch has to be used. If it's only uggly that there's no BIOS > routine it would IMHO be better to find a way to make it work again. There > are fixes for other uggly architectures in the code as well, see the > Toshiba Laptop reference. If the board may be PC compatible, Linux should > IMHO boot without further changes. >
The weird part about your board is that the code clearly *works*, or your kernel wouldn't boot at all. It somehow poisons the system, though, and that's utterly bizarre.
I don't think this is debuggable without access to hardware (and maybe not even then.)
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