From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Lee Irwin III Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:34:17 +0000 Subject: Re: PATCH to fix initialisation issue for GC3 (linux-2.5.64 +). Message-Id: <20041029003417.GW12934@holomorphy.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mark Fortescue Cc: davem@redhat.com, ecd@skynet.be, jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz, anton@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, ultralinux@vger.kernel.org, trivial@rustcorp.com.au On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 01:27:51AM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: > This patch fixes an error in the blanking code for the GCThree SBUS > video card. Now I get a logo and black screen, not just a blank (no > video) screen. It is a trivual fix that has taken too long to identify as > it is such a small typing error during the rewriting of the code for > the new frame buffer system introduced in the 2.5 series kernels. > Given that it still exists in the 2.6.8.1 kernel, I assume that not many > people have tried using the latest kernel on systems with a CGThree. Yes, all my systems are headless unfortunately. -- wli From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263200AbUJ2BTE (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:19:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263311AbUJ2BSZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:18:25 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:52621 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263200AbUJ2Aeo (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:34:44 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:34:17 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Mark Fortescue Cc: davem@redhat.com, ecd@skynet.be, jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz, anton@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, ultralinux@vger.kernel.org, trivial@rustcorp.com.au Subject: Re: PATCH to fix initialisation issue for GC3 (linux-2.5.64 +). Message-ID: <20041029003417.GW12934@holomorphy.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 01:27:51AM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: > This patch fixes an error in the blanking code for the GCThree SBUS > video card. Now I get a logo and black screen, not just a blank (no > video) screen. It is a trivual fix that has taken too long to identify as > it is such a small typing error during the rewriting of the code for > the new frame buffer system introduced in the 2.5 series kernels. > Given that it still exists in the 2.6.8.1 kernel, I assume that not many > people have tried using the latest kernel on systems with a CGThree. Yes, all my systems are headless unfortunately. -- wli