On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:04:07AM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 20:32 +0200, Alexander van Heukelum wrote:
> > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 03:28:17AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Sat, 5 May 2007 12:44:52 +0200 Alexander van Heukelum <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > --- a/arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S
> > > > +++ b/arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S
> > > > @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ #endif
> > > > _start:
> > > >
> > > > # Normalize the start address
> > > > - jmpl $BOOTSEG, $start2
> > > > + jmpw $BOOTSEG, $start2
> > >
> > > Sigh, another blow struck in the ongoing struggle between my Vaio and the
> > > rest of the world.
> > >
> > > Stone-cold black-screen lockup immediately upon boot.
> > >
> > > Stock FC5 install, config at
> > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt
> >
> > Sigh... sounds impossible.
> >
> > I assume this is repeatable? And this patch changes behaviour? What do
> > you mean by immediate? Before or after decompression?
> >
> > Fishy... As Andi and Peter have mentioned, this code is not executed.
> > There is only one user of the same memory area this early... video.S
> > uses it to store some collected data, but as far as I can see only the
> > 'CONFIG_VIDEO_RETAIN' code also reads it back. If it happens before
> > decompression, could you see if changing
> > #define CONFIG_VIDEO_RETAIN -> #undef CONFIG_VIDEO_RETAIN
> > in arch/i386/boot/video.S changes anything?
> >
> > Do you select a non-standard textmode? Does vga=ask show up?
> >
> > *looks around some*
> >
> > Oh! A padding hole in a struct! That could be a problem. If the freeze
> > is after decompression, could you test if this makes it work again?
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Alexander
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Commit 89ec4c238e7a3d7e660291f3f1a8181381baad77 introduced a discrepancy
> > between the struct screen_info which is used by the C code, and the
> > PARAM_* offsets which are used in the real-mode kernel. This is an
> > attempt to rectify the situation, but I have no way to test it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <[email protected]>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S b/arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S
> > diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/video.S b/arch/i386/boot/video.S
> > index 8143c95..8e404cb 100644
> > --- a/arch/i386/boot/video.S
> > +++ b/arch/i386/boot/video.S
> > @@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ #define PARAM_VESAPM_SEG 0x2e
> > #define PARAM_VESAPM_OFF 0x30
> > #define PARAM_LFB_PAGES 0x32
> > #define PARAM_VESA_ATTRIB 0x34
> > -#define PARAM_CAPABILITIES 0x36
> > +#define PARAM_VESA_PAD 0x36
> > +#define PARAM_CAPABILITIES 0x38
Isn't this ^^^ what you are suggesting below?
> > /* Define DO_STORE according to CONFIG_VIDEO_RETAIN */
> > #ifdef CONFIG_VIDEO_RETAIN
> > diff --git a/include/linux/screen_info.h b/include/linux/screen_info.h
> > index b02308e..0a2e892 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/screen_info.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/screen_info.h
> > @@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ struct screen_info {
> > u16 vesapm_off; /* 0x30 */
> > u16 pages; /* 0x32 */
> > u16 vesa_attributes; /* 0x34 */
> > - u32 capabilities; /* 0x36 */
> > - /* 0x3a -- 0x3b reserved for future expansion */
> > + u16 vesa_pad; /* 0x36 */
> > + u32 capabilities; /* 0x38 */
> > /* 0x3c -- 0x3f micro stack for relocatable kernels */
> > };
> >
>
> You would also need this minor change.
>
> Tony
>
> diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/video.S b/arch/i386/boot/video.S
> index 5e2280c..2d637d1 100644
> --- a/arch/i386/boot/video.S
> +++ b/arch/i386/boot/video.S
> @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ #define PARAM_VESAPM_SEG 0x2e
> #define PARAM_VESAPM_OFF 0x30
> #define PARAM_LFB_PAGES 0x32
> #define PARAM_VESA_ATTRIB 0x34
> -#define PARAM_CAPABILITIES 0x36
> +#define PARAM_CAPABILITIES 0x38
>
> /* Define DO_STORE according to CONFIG_VIDEO_RETAIN */
> #ifdef CONFIG_VIDEO_RETAIN
--
Len Sorensen
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