Re: problem with vgacon on Alphas

Peter Rye (prye@picu-sgh.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 9 Aug 1998 07:40:25 +0100


On Aug 8, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:

> after some reports about freezing Alpha machines with 2.1.113 as soon
> as someone switches from X to a normal console. I've tried it myself and
> my machine also stopped after I pressed CTRL-ALT-F1 under X.
>
> I've tracked the problem down (serial console is your friend) to
> a memcpy_from(), where the source is a kernel address, which is
> a no no on Alphas. Below is a patch, which fixes this problem.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I have applied your patch to 2.1.115 and it has fixed this problem.

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