From: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>, noring@nocrew.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Improvements for the PS3
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 08:15:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d56c408d-347e-ae94-c2ea-331343660147@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdX3xiRYYdhQftHRDYFqob7xMHm-xxvh3NyoC1TowH4x8g@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Geert, Fredrik,
On 07/19/2018 12:45 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On 07/14/2018 09:49 AM, Fredrik Noring wrote:
>>>
>>> et voilà, the screen came alive and the kernel panic was revealed! It seems
>>> the kernel panics so fast that the PS3 frame buffer is unprepared. This is,
>>> of course, very unfortunate because trying to debug the boot process without
>>> a screen or any other means of obtaining console text is quite difficult.
>>
> What about letting ps3fb register a panic notifier to sync the screen, like
> hyperv_fb does?
Seems like the thing to do. Fredrik, do you want to try it? Otherwise, I'll
work on it when I have some time.
-Geoff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-19 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-14 16:49 Improvements for the PS3 Fredrik Noring
2018-07-18 22:40 ` Geoff Levand
2018-07-19 7:45 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-07-19 15:15 ` Geoff Levand [this message]
2018-07-19 20:14 ` Fredrik Noring
2018-07-20 7:36 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-07-20 8:46 ` Fredrik Noring
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