[parisc-linux] What happen to the Penguin

[John David Anglin]

> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 07:59:31PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > I haven't been able to boot recent consoles of my c3k (oh, I did
> > accidently boot a 64-bit kernel built for an A500 without frame
> > buffer support).  The last build that successfully boots is
> > 2.6.17-rc3-pa3.  The last messages that is see are:
> > 
> <snip...>
> > Any ideas as to what's broken in later kernels?
> > 
> 
> Apparently there has been some changes to the way VTs are handled,
> as I saw someone else complaining about this in a completely
> unrelated place. I'll take a look into it at some point this weekend.

This happened between 2.6.17-rc3-pa3 and 2.6.17-rc4-pa0.  Removing
the unsupported A1262A allowed 2.6.17-pa6 to boot.  It doesn't boot
with the card installed.  This is using the c3000_defconfig kernels.

Dave
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