common config fails to open /dev/console

Olaf Hering olh at suse.de
Wed Nov 12 19:00:48 EST 2003


 On Wed, Nov 12, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 08:10, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > I got this oops with the attached config. it dies in init_dev() because
> > driver->ttys contains NULL.
> >
> > sys_open -> filp_open -> dentry_open -> chrdev_open -> tty_open -> init_dev
> >
> > maybe pmac_zilog doesnt play well together with the 8250, or it doesnt
> > initalize everything correctly.
>
> Sure, pmac_zilog doesn't play well with 8250, but shouldn't cause such
> a crash. What machine is it btw ? Can you send me a fix for pmac_feature
> not detecting the model properly ?

I think the bug is that the detection is still in progress, see
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1529

Its a 7200/90. 'compatible' contains
AAPL,7300
MacRISC

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