[PATCH] return to OF via trap, not exit

[Michael Ellerman]

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 22:03 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Mon, Mar 06, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> 
> > That's better than always calling trap, sure.  Is there any reason
> > you can't just do it on Macs though?  Because the problem you're trying
> > to work around only happens there.
> 
> Maybe something like this? Only compile tested
> 
> 
> Do not call prom exit prom_panic. It clears the screen and the exit message is lost.
> On some (or all?) pmacs it causes another crash when OF tries to print the
> date and time in its banner.
> 
> Set of_platform earlier to catch more prom_panic() calls.

Looks reasonable, assuming it works :)

cheers

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