Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S274853AbVBFKf7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 05:35:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275133AbVBFKf6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 05:35:58 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:62596 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275687AbVBFKfp (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 05:35:45 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Peter Osterlund Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: References: <20050204103350.241a907a.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 21:33:44 +1100 Message-Id: <1107686024.30303.52.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1355 Lines: 38 On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 11:07 +0100, Peter Osterlund wrote: > Andrew Morton writes: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc3/2.6.11-rc3-mm1/ > > It gives me a kernel panic at boot if I have CONFIG_FB_RADEON > enabled. If I also have CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE enabled, I get this > output: > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 > ... > PREEMPT > ... > EIP is a strncpy_from_user+0x33/0x47 > ... > Call Trace: > getname+0x69/0xa5 > sys_open+0x12/0xc6 > sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x75 > ... > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > If I don't have CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE enabled, I get a screen > with random junk and some blinking colored boxes, and the machine > hangs. That's very strange... I don't see what in radeonfb could cause this. Just in case, can you try commenting out the call to radeon_pm_init() in radeon_base.c, see if it makes any difference (though I don't think so). Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/