From: Woody Suwalski <terraluna977@gmail.com>
To: Lee Jones <ljkenny@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Upstream] Stop ARM boards crashing with CUPS is loaded
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:38:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C3B1AD2.6060900@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C3B071D.10505@gmail.com>
Lee Jones wrote:
> Please find attached a patch which rectifies the following bug.
>
> When CUPS loads, it tries to load several drivers that it may need.
> When one of these drivers, specifically parport_pc is loaded on ARM
> based systems, it causes a segmentation fault as the address is not
> writable on non-PC based architectures. This code prevents this
> driver from being compiled on said architectures.
>
> Kind regards,
> Lee
>
Not exactly true. Netwinders based on Armc4l SA110 have implemeted
Parallel port hardware.
It can be used for PP-CDroms and (of course) printing.
I do not claim that the platform is of a great importance anymore, but
blanket statements to remove RTC or PPort or KBD from ARM are not correct...
Woody
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-12 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-12 12:14 [Upstream] Stop ARM boards crashing with CUPS is loaded Lee Jones
2010-07-12 13:38 ` Woody Suwalski [this message]
2010-07-12 18:37 ` Randy Dunlap
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