Re: Debian kernel v2.6.38

Thorsten Glaser
2011-04-24T11:39:26Z

Geert Uytterhoeven dixit:

>On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 00:12, Michael Schmitz
><schmitzmic@googlemail.com> wrote:

>> If there is a generic lowmem allocator

There’s bound to be one. For example, on i386 you have two kinds
of lowmem to take care of: ISA DMA (first 16 MiB), and DMA and/or
BIOS call space within the first 640 KiB (both preferably not
crossing a 64 KiB boundary). But then, I’m not a kernel programmer
(either BSD or Linux), so I don’t know how things are handled these
days.

> - ataflop, atari_scsi, and atafb allocate ST-RAM only at driver
>initialization,

Speaking of atafb, with the trimmed-down patch I get garbled video
with BootColorDepth 1, 4 or 8, and no option or video=atafb:vga2
both; using video=atafb:vga4 (with BCD=4) has no output at all.

This is no biggie for me, since the boxen work, but e.g. when
there’s an “mounted n times” fsck, the machine takes ages longer
to get up, and people will think it has frozen, so I’d very much
like to get _some_ kind of fix into at least the second version
of the Debian kernel, once we get past the initial hurdle…

bye,
//mirabilos
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