kernel crash with G5 Xserve and sungem driver

[Harald Welte]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:42:44PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Harald Welte wrote:
> 
> >Just don't compile (or load) the sungem driver on those boxes.
> 
> Hmm.  That's a pain.  We've got G5 desktops too, and it would be nice to be 
> able to run one kernel for both.  It'd be better (IMHO) to fix the driver 
> so it doesn't crash.

I recommend talking to Bejamin Herrenschmidt, IIRC he already had
something in mind in order to fix the issue.

I mean, you can always hardcode some exemption into the driver, that's
two easy lines ;)

> Chris

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- Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org>               http://www.gnumonks.org/
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