RE: 2.3.99-pre7: intermittent PCMCIA crashes on loading yenta.o

From: J.W. Hoogervorst (jeroenho@ic.uva.nl)
Date: Thu May 18 2000 - 06:03:33 EDT

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    Here's a real patch. Can anyone tell if the retrace irq is needed for
    anything in the
    linux kernel or any lib (vgalib? X server?)

    Jeroen
    ----------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------
    8<---------
    --- linux.orig/drivers/video/vga16fb.c Thu May 11 15:02:44 2000
    +++ linux/drivers/video/vga16fb.c Thu May 18 11:59:43 2000
    @@ -387,7 +387,7 @@
             if (pos & 0x200)
                     r7 |= 0x80;
             pos += vslen;
    - par->crtc[VGA_CRTC_V_SYNC_END] = (pos & 0x0F) | 0x10; /* disabled IRQ */
    + par->crtc[VGA_CRTC_V_SYNC_END] = (pos & 0x0F) & ~0x10; /* disable IRQ */
             pos += upper - 1; /* blank_end + 1 <= ytotal + 2 */
             par->crtc[VGA_CRTC_V_BLANK_END] = pos & 0xFF; /* 0x7F for original VGA,
                          but some SVGA chips requires all 8 bits to set */
    ----------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------
    8<---------

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: J.W. Hoogervorst [mailto:jeroenho@ic.uva.nl]
    > Sent: donderdag 18 mei 2000 10:27
    > To: 'Matt Yourst'
    > Cc: 'linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu'
    > Subject: RE: 2.3.99-pre7: intermittent PCMCIA crashes on
    > loading yenta.o
    >
    >
    > Can you try finding "IRQ" in vga16fb.c (only one occurence),
    > and changing "| 0x10" on the same line in "& ~0x10", and see
    > if that helps for you too? Works for me ;-)
    >
    > Jeroen.
    >
    > > > > > It seems that 2.3.99-pre7 has intermittent problems when
    > > > > > loading PCMCIA modules
    > > > > > at boot time again: the system goes into a hard lockup after
    > > > > > loading the yenta
    > > > > > module in random cases.
    > >
    >

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