Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:55:10 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Bug in console driver? |
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Michael Schroeder wrote: > > Hi! > > I suppose there is a bug in the 2.4-kernel console driver > (../drivers/char/console.c). > > It seems that (if there is a slow video device) this driver disables the > handling of interrupts while writing or switching the consoles. >
Yup. This was fixed in -ac kernels a few months ago. We're working on a merge into Linus' kernels at present - it's still a fairly large patch though.
The latest diff (against 2.4.10-pre10) is at http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/2.4.10-pre10-no-console-lock-2.patch
Could you please test it?
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