Alignment error causes splix to print white pages on arm
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#6 Alignment error causes splix to print white pages on arm
This is actually the same as bug 2898715, but the reporter closed it already.
The patch he suggested just sidesteps the problem (it's thought for a different bug).
The attached patch just fixes the alignment issue only without touching anything else.
Hi, could you try if the patch below (dropping of the machine dependent endian code) also fixes this problem?
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3037880&group_id=175815&atid=874748
It doesn't.
Using little endian code instead of the big endian one does instead. (see patch attached)
Just that is enough on ARM, but I see that there is a debian bug report about PowerPC that adds some endian swapping code as well:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533468
Cheers,
Luca
Use the little endian variant only.
Bug report has attached a patch to solve the problem. Therefore moving to the patch tracker. Please move back if the patch causes other problems or if it does not help to fix this bug.