aic7xxx panics (long)

[Ethan Benson]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:24:04AM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 09:59, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:37:32PM -0400, Ethan Weinstein wrote:
> > >
> > > Ben,
> > >
> > > Even with your suggestions, I was unable to get xmon to output
> > > correctly, the framebuffer became too corrupted to get anything useful,
> > >  and the sysmap option couldn't have worked if we couldn't mount
> > > anything anyway, no?
> >
> > actually the sysmap= option is handled internally by yaboot, yaboot
> > reads the sysmap into memory and gives the kernel a pointer to it.
> > the kernel doesn't read it from disk itself.
> >
> > its also not really tested at all so its entirely possible thats its
> > completly broken ;-)
>
> It just works :)

great, theres at least one thing ive managed to not break in yaboot 1.x.

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