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Subject: Re: aic7xxx panics (long)
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
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On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 09:59, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:37:32PM -0400, Ethan Weinstein wrote:
> >
> > Ben,
> >
> > Even with your suggestions, I was unable to get xmon to output
> > correctly, the framebuffer became too corrupted to get anything useful,
> >  and the sysmap option couldn't have worked if we couldn't mount
> > anything anyway, no?
>
> actually the sysmap= option is handled internally by yaboot, yaboot
> reads the sysmap into memory and gives the kernel a pointer to it.
> the kernel doesn't read it from disk itself.
>
> its also not really tested at all so its entirely possible thats its
> completly broken ;-)

It just works :)

Ben.


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