From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262596AbUK0CCs (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:02:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263000AbUKZTiS (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:38:18 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:55234 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262303AbUKZT0B (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:26:01 -0500 From: "Mario Gaucher" To: adaplas@pol.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Fix crash if fb_set_var() called before register_framebuffer() Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:20:32 -0500 Message-Id: <20041125235955.M86030@zadig.ca> In-Reply-To: <200411250115.50895.adaplas@hotpop.com> References: <200411250115.50895.adaplas@hotpop.com> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.41 20040926 X-OriginatingIP: 192.168.25.10 (zadig) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > The field info->modelist is initialized during register_framebuffer. This > field is also referred to in fb_set_var(). Thus a call to fb_set_var() > before register_framebuffer() will cause a crash. A few drivers do this, > notably controlfb. (This might fix reports of controlfb crashing in > powermacs). this patch works well... I can now boot my PowerMac 7300 using 2.6.10-rc2-bk8 (that I got on kernel.org) with this patch... but I still has some problem with my Matrox Millenium PCI card using matroxfb driver... the kernel boot... but I get corrupted characters on the console... X load ok and display ok... It works really well with the onboard video (controlfb driver) matroxfb driver works fine on 2.6.8