Crash with BenH's 2.4.10/2.4.11-pre on 7600

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Oct 9 07:24:33 EST 2001


>
>The problem is that request_OF_resource (which calls kmalloc() ) is
>called from probe_sccs, which in turn is called for the serial console,
>i.e _very_ early in the boot process. At that time, the kmem system is
>not yet initialized.

Good catch !

I'll find a fix.

Ben.


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