Re: [Bug #13941] x86 Geode issue

[Martin-Ãric Racine]

2009/8/13 Martin-Ãric Racine <q-funk@xxxxxx>:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Ingo Molnar<mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> * Martin-Ãric Racine <q-funk@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Yes, this bug is still valid.
>>>
>>> Ubuntu kernel team member Leann Ogasawara and I are slowly
>>> bisecting our way through the changes that took place since 2.6.30
>>> to find the commit that introduced this regression. Please stay
>>> tuned.
>>
>> hm, the only outright Geode related commit was:
>>
>> Âd6c585a: x86: geode: Mark mfgpt irq IRQF_TIMER to prevent resume failure
>>
>> the jpg at:
>>
>> Âhttp://launchpadlibrarian.net/28892781/00002.jpg
>>
>> is very out of focus - but what i could decypher suggests a
>> pagefault crash in the VFS code, in generic_delete_inode().

This one might be a bit better:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30267494/2.6.31-5.24.jpg

>> Which could be a VFS bug, or a filesystem bug, or some unrelated
>> memory corruption hitting the inode data structure.
>
> It could indeed be many things.
>
> I've been trying to boot this into a larger framebuffer to be able to
> fit more data into my snapshots, but it appears that vga=795 doesn't
> work anymore. Have we reverted to Hex values again or is this just an
> issue of some kernel module missing from initrd?

Never mind. Seems that vesafb was blacklisted. Works now. See the
image above. :)

Martin-Ãric
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