Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423220AbXBHQhY (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:37:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423222AbXBHQhY (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:37:24 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:37498 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423220AbXBHQhX (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:37:23 -0500 Message-ID: <45CB4C01.2060709@tmr.com> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:12:49 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Geert Uytterhoeven CC: Linux Frame Buffer Device Development , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: 2.6.20: Modular fb and logo crash References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1238 Lines: 27 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > If you don't have any builtin frame buffer device driver and insmod a frame > buffer device driver, the logo code will still try to display the logo (which > is __initdata). This may cause a crash. > > Originally (2.1.x, is it that long ago I used a modular frame buffer device > driver?), this didn't happen because initmem_freed (which no longer exists) was > checked. BTW, there's still a comment in drivers/video/console/fbcon.c about > this. > > Anyone else who's seeing this? Anyone with an idea how to fix this? > Moving the logo code to userspace is not considered a solution ;-) I used to see this when loading from a booted system, but not when the modules were in initrd. Don't know if that offers you any help or not. Clearly you want the fb built-in so you see the penguins, anyway. ;-D -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - 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/