Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 15:13:20 +0000
From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: deloptes <deloptes@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-geode@bombadil.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev: geocode: remove unneeded NULL check
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On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 06:05:04 +0100
deloptes <deloptes@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> 
> > On 06/01/15 14:45, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> >> the check for info is not required as we are checking it immediately
> >> after gxfb_init_fbinfo() and lxfb_init_fbinfo() and returnig -ENOMEM
> >> if it is NULL.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> >> ---
> >> Hi Tomi,
> >> This patch is similar to my last patch which you have already queued
> >> for 3.20. if you can revert that then i can send you a single patch
> >> with all these three changes together.
> > 
> > No need for that, two separate patches is fine. So queued for 3.20.
> > 
> >  Tomi
> 
> Hi sorry for off topic question, but how do you run 3.20 on geode ?
> I was not able to boot anything since 2.27 as initrd (I guess udev )
> corrupts (I guess memory something) and boot hangs.
> One suggested to bisect but no one explained how.
> I would be glad to get some hint on how to run kernel with udev support on
> geode (means >= 2.27)

Tinycore has certainly been reported to run on Geode boxes as of 3.x
kernel series. It might be worth trying a tinycore build on the device
just to see how far it gets on your hardware.

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