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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] return to OF via trap, not exit
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:13:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D857A5CA-8D59-4047-AFAF-35FC421FDEE2@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060323210357.GC24667@suse.de>

On 23-mrt-2006, at 22:03, Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Mon, Mar 06, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> That's better than always calling trap, sure.  Is there any reason
>> you can't just do it on Macs though?  Because the problem you're  
>> trying
>> to work around only happens there.
>
> Maybe something like this? Only compile tested

That looks fine yes (if it runs ;-) ), thanks!

> Do not call prom exit prom_panic. It clears the screen and the exit  
> message is lost.
> On some (or all?) pmacs it causes another crash when OF tries to  
> print the
> date and time in its banner.
>
> Set of_platform earlier to catch more prom_panic() calls.
>
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>

Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-24 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-04 19:10 [PATCH] return to OF via trap, not exit Olaf Hering
2006-03-06  1:12 ` Michael Ellerman
2006-03-06  7:38   ` Olaf Hering
2006-03-06  7:41     ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-03-06  7:43       ` Olaf Hering
2006-03-06  7:46         ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-03-06  7:49           ` Olaf Hering
2006-03-06  7:57             ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-03-23 21:03               ` Olaf Hering
2006-03-23 23:11                 ` Michael Ellerman
2006-03-24 12:13                 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]

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