[parisc-linux] [BUG] SysRQ H kills the machine

[James Bottomley]

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 00:01 -0400, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> Hi pa-ckers
> 
> quick brain dump before going to bed:
> 2.6.18-rc1-pa3
> boot init=/bin/sh -- machine is alive
> issue a sysrq h (help) -- machine is dead
> 
> happened to me on parisc and probably ia64 (have to double check the latter).

This is a known and incredibly annoying bug:  serial console is broken
for sysrq.  Alan Cox is currently trying to fix it, I believe.

James