Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:12:49 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.20: Modular fb and logo crash |
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Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > If you don't have any builtin frame buffer device driver and insmod a frame > buffer device driver, the logo code will still try to display the logo (which > is __initdata). This may cause a crash. > > Originally (2.1.x, is it that long ago I used a modular frame buffer device > driver?), this didn't happen because initmem_freed (which no longer exists) was > checked. BTW, there's still a comment in drivers/video/console/fbcon.c about > this. > > Anyone else who's seeing this? Anyone with an idea how to fix this? > Moving the logo code to userspace is not considered a solution ;-)
I used to see this when loading from a booted system, but not when the modules were in initrd. Don't know if that offers you any help or not. Clearly you want the fb built-in so you see the penguins, anyway. ;-D
-- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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