Re: problem with vgacon on Alphas
Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:55:59 +0200
> 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
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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