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Fixed!!! :-)

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

Sorry about that. I fixed the tree. I missed syncing up fault.c correctly.
I also reversed the removal of dummy console code. That was in my private
tree and it accidently got sent to CVS. Everything should work fine. I
tested it and it worked. It made me realize that I need to go over the
code with a fine comb. After this many releases it was bound to happen. 

Next on the agenda:

Finally merge Andrew Mortons patch with some improvements. I plan to do
this by moving the vt lock into struct tty_driver. This way all locking
can be handled by the tty layer and printk. This way lower level drivers
don't have to worry about it.

Next is the display driver initialization. It just is a mess. Evil code.
I played with some ideas last weekend but it was a little more touchy then
I thought. 

3rd. VC resizing. I discovered it is possible to use stty to resize the
current VC. WARNING this hangs the machine. I plan to have this fixed.

4th. Font support for fbcon to be added back in. To do this I need to do
some cleaning up of font handling. Make it more generic.

Re: Fixed!!! :-)

[Johann D. <jo...@Do...>]

Is the cvs tree synced with the non-patched version of kernel 2.4.4 ?
It seems this kernel won't run on smp machines (like mine) without Allan
Cox's patches (actually it crashed my smp box even with patch ac5,
but I have to try harder).

-- 
Johann Deneux
CS student at DoCS (www.docs.uu.se/~johannd) and
ESIL (www.esil.univ-mrs.fr/~jdeneux)

Re: Fixed!!! :-)

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

> Is the cvs tree synced with the non-patched version of kernel 2.4.4 ?

Yes.

> It seems this kernel won't run on smp machines (like mine) without Allan
> Cox's patches (actually it crashed my smp box even with patch ac5,
> but I have to try harder).

Hum. I don't have a SMP machine. Anyone with a SMP machine to test stuff
on?