Re: problems with the serial console

[Andreas S. <an...@sc...>]

* Andreas Schuldei (an...@sc...) [020914 01:26]:
> * Andreas Schuldei (an...@sc...) [020913 13:13]:
> Code;  c0178d8b <kbd_keycode+f/21c>   <=====
>    0:   8b 37                     mov    (%edi),%esi   <=====
> Code;  c0178d8d <kbd_keycode+11/21c>
>    2:   83 fd 02                  cmp    $0x2,%ebp
> Code;  c0178d90 <kbd_keycode+14/21c>

this oops takes place in the function kbd_keycode, because vt is
a nullpointer. i added a check for vt==0 and print out some
warning and returnd, and now it crashes no longer.

so why would the vt pointer be NULL?