beige g3 rage II xf4.0.1 and miBoot

Michel Dänzer daenzerm at student.ethz.ch
Sat Sep 30 06:09:48 EST 2000


Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
> > PS> Any ideas why writing to a disabled pci device in ppc crashes
> > the machine but not the x86 ones ? Is this something that can be fixed
> > in the kernel or an arch thing ?
>
> Because it happens by the framebuffer driver (kernel space).

And it doesn't with x86? :)


Michel


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