Re: [PATCH] [Streak] Add workaround for TTY kernel OOPS at the cost of performance.

[Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>]

On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 22:07 +0200, Tomasz Sterna wrote:
> Dnia 2010-10-01, pią o godzinie 08:47 -0700, Daniel Walker pisze:
> > I don't have access to Streak hardware, and I've not talked to anyone
> > that does. But if you give us the OOPS message we can try to figure
> > out what's going on..
> 
> Do you say, that on other Snapdragon hardware msm-2.6.35 tree with
> console=tty works fine and there is no error?

AFAIK .. I have a G1 which displays console messages to the framebuffer,
(using the mainline framebuffer driver ) I didn't put in console=tty
tho.

> 
> > BTW did Dell release a kernel for Streak? They might already have a
> > workaround in their kernel. 
> 
> Yes they did: http://opensource.dell.com/releases/streak/
> (This is where I ported the changes and drivers from)
> But this kernels have exactly the same problem.

Ok, great.

> framebuffer driver works fine accessed from userspace, but breaks on
> displaying kernel boot messages. Right after the message:
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 60x50
> 
> I will try to retype the OOPS message, but it's hard - it scrolls out of
> the screen ;-)

you could take a picture, assuming you have a camera.

Daniel

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