Re: 2.4.0-test4 success (Re: affs)

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Is it a real lock up, or a panic (probably with NULL pointer dereference or
> > bad address access.
> 
> I've only tried it from a remote machine yet - will try at the console.

Probably there's an interesting message on your console.

> > /proc/iomem works on both my m68k Amiga and my PPC CHRP box.
> 
> I thought it might be related to the fact that we don't have an iobase, but I
> guess then it shouldn't work on your m68k box either...

So /proc/ioports is empty, but /proc/iomem is full (remember, all I/O on m68k
and PPC is memory mapped).

> > Can you add debugging code in kernel/resource.c:do_resource_list(), so we
> > know where it happens? If /proc/iomem doesn't work, changes are high that
> > your box will crash also when some driver wants to use the resource tree.
> 
> That would be pretty bad - which Amiga drivers would want to use it?

Lot's of drivers. I converted almost all of them (including all drivers for
Zorro boards) and the rest is just waiting here to be tested. Look for
request_mem_region().

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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