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* i386: Fix wrong CPU error message in early boot pathChristian Volkmann2007-05-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | - boot/setup.S did not print "PANIC: CPU too old for this kernel" ( not visible, also the message did not match ) - I add "# missed before: set ds" => somebody should check if I am right with the way to set. => seems to be a generic error in setup.S not to set "ds" for error messages. AK: extracted patch out of other changes AK: also couldn't find any other case where ds is wrong Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Revert "fbdev: ignore VESA modes if framebuffer is disabled"Linus Torvalds2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e. Peter Anvin correctly points out that VESA modes have nothing to do with frame buffers per se - they are often just regular extended text modes. Disabling them just because we don't have frame buffer support is very wrong. Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>, Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fbdev: ignore VESA modes if framebuffer is disabledAntonino A. Daplas2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the option vga=<VESA graphics mode> is added to the boot parameter, it will activate graphics mode, but without any framebuffer support, the user is left with an unusable display. Change the behavior such that the user is instead prompted for another mode (ala vga=ask). NOTE: People can always use vbetool to set a graphics mode if this is really desired, but the number of people doing this approaches zero. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] i386: Verify important CPUID bits in real modeAndi Kleen2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | Check some CPUID bits that are needed for compiler generated early in boot. When the system is still in real mode before changing the VESA BIOS mode it is possible to still display an visible error message on the screen. Similar to x86-64. Includes cleanups from Eric Biederman Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: Drop -traditional in arch/i386/bootAndi Kleen2007-05-02
| | | | | | Needed for followon patch Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] x86: deflate stack usage in lib/inflate.cJeremy Fitzhardinge2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | inflate_fixed and huft_build together use around 2.7k of stack. When using 4k stacks, I saw stack overflows from interrupts arriving while unpacking the root initrd: do_IRQ: stack overflow: 384 [<c0106b64>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30 [<c01075e6>] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [<c010763f>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18 [<c0107ca4>] do_IRQ+0x6d/0xd9 [<c010202b>] xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0x6e/0xa2 [<c0106781>] xen_hypervisor_callback+0x25/0x2c [<c010116c>] xen_restore_fl+0x27/0x29 [<c0330f63>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4a/0x50 [<c0117aab>] change_page_attr+0x577/0x584 [<c0117b45>] kernel_map_pages+0x8d/0xb4 [<c016a314>] cache_alloc_refill+0x53f/0x632 [<c016a6c2>] __kmalloc+0xc1/0x10d [<c0463d34>] malloc+0x10/0x12 [<c04641c1>] huft_build+0x2a7/0x5fa [<c04645a5>] inflate_fixed+0x91/0x136 [<c04657e2>] unpack_to_rootfs+0x5f2/0x8c1 [<c0465acf>] populate_rootfs+0x1e/0xe4 (This was under Xen, but there's no reason it couldn't happen on bare hardware.) This patch mallocs the local variables, thereby reducing the stack usage to sane levels. Also, up the heap size for the kernel decompressor to deal with the extra allocation. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Tim Yamin <plasmaroo@gentoo.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
* [PATCH] x86: add command line length to boot protocolBernhard Walle2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because the command line is increased to 2048 characters after 2.6.21, it's not possible for boot loaders and userspace tools to determine the length of the command line the kernel can understand. The benefit of knowing the length is that users can be warned if the command line size is too long which prevents surprise if things don't work after bootup. This patch updates the boot protocol to contain a field called "cmdline_size" that contain the length of the command line (excluding the terminating zero). The patch also adds missing fields (of protocol version 2.05) to the x86_64 setup code. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] x86: Don't probe for DDC on VBE1.2Zwane Mwaikambo2007-04-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | VBE1.2 doesn't support function 15h (DDC) resulting in a 'hang' whilst uncompressing kernel with some video cards. Make sure we check VBE version before fiddling around with DDC. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458 Opened: 2003-10-30 09:12 Last update: 2007-02-13 22:03 Much thanks to Tobias Hain for help in testing and investigating the bug. Tested on; i386, Chips & Technologies 65548 VESA VBE 1.2 CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=Y CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=Y Untested on x86_64. Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* Use ARRAY_SIZE() macro in i386 relocs.c fileRobert P. J. Day2007-02-17
| | | | | | | | | Change the explicit code in the relocs.c file to use ARRAY_SIZE() and add a definition of ARRAY_SIZE() since this is a userspace program and wouldn't include kernel.h. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* [PATCH] __crc_... is intended to be absoluteAl Viro2007-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | i386 boot/compressed/relocs checks for absolute symbols and warns about unexpected ones. If you build with modversions, you get ~2500 warnings about __crc_<symbol>. These suckers are really absolute symbols - we do _not_ want to modify them on relocation. They are generated by genksyms - EXPORT_... generates a weak alias, then genksyms produces an ld script with __crc_<symbol> = <checksum> and it's fed to ld to produce the final object file. Their only use is to match kernel and module at modprobe time; they _must_ be absolute. boot/compressed/relocs has a whitelist of known absolute symbols, but it doesn't know about __crc_... stuff. As the result, we get shitloads of false positives on any ld(1) version. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Fix insta-reboot with "i386: Relocatable kernel support"Segher Boessenkool2007-01-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 968de4f02621db35b8ae5239c8cfc6664fb872d8 ("i386: Relocatable kernel support") caused problems for people with old binutils versions that didn't mark ".text.*" sections automatically allocated. So we should use .section command to specifically mark .text.head section as AX (allocatable and executable) to solve the problem. This should be unnecessary with binutils 2.15 and later, which is already three years old, but it doesn't hurt supporting older toolchains where possible. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Add .gitignore file for relocs in arch/i386Thomas Meyer2006-12-30
| | | | | | | | | | | Due to the changes to make the kernel relocateable a new file is created during the build process. [jirislaby@gmail.com: The .gitigonre was intended to be in arch/ subtree] Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86-64: Fix numaq build errorRandy Dunlap2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | CC arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.o arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c:120: error: static declaration of 'xquad_portio' follows non-static declaration include/asm/io.h:275: error: previous declaration of 'xquad_portio' was here make[2]: *** [arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] paravirt: header and stubs for paravirtualisationRusty Russell2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Create a paravirt.h header for all the critical operations which need to be replaced with hypervisor calls, and include that instead of defining native operations, when CONFIG_PARAVIRT. This patch does the dumbest possible replacement of paravirtualized instructions: calls through a "paravirt_ops" structure. Currently these are function implementations of native hardware: hypervisors will override the ops structure with their own variants. All the pv-ops functions are declared "fastcall" so that a specific register-based ABI is used, to make inlining assember easier. And: +From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> The paravirt ops introduce a 'weak' attribute onto memory_setup(). Code ordering leads to the following warnings on x86: arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:651: warning: weak declaration of `memory_setup' after first use results in unspecified behavior Move memory_setup() to avoid this. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
* [PATCH] i386: extend bzImage protocol for relocatable protected mode kernelVivek Goyal2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Extend bzImage protocol to enable bootloaders to load a completely relocatable bzImage. Now protected mode component of kernel is also relocatable and a boot-loader can load the protected mode component at a differnt physical address than 1MB. (If kernel was built with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE) Kexec can make use of it to load this kernel at a different physical address to capture kernel crash dumps. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: Implement CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGNVivek Goyal2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | o Now CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START is being replaced with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN. Hardcoding the kernel physical start value creates a problem in relocatable kernel context due to boot loader limitations. For ex, if somebody compiles a relocatable kernel to be run from address 4MB, but this kernel will run from location 1MB as grub loads the kernel at physical address 1MB. Kernel thinks that I am a relocatable kernel and I should run from the address I have been loaded at. So somebody wanting to run kernel from 4MB alignment location (for improved performance regions) can't do that. o Hence, Eric proposed that probably CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN will make more sense in relocatable kernel context. At run time kernel will move itself to a physical addr location which meets user specified alignment restrictions. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: Warn upon absolute relocations being presentVivek Goyal2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | o Relocations generated w.r.t absolute symbols are not processed as by definition, absolute symbols are not to be relocated. Explicitly warn user about absolutions relocations present at compile time. o These relocations get introduced either due to linker optimizations or some programming oversights. o Also create a list of symbols which have been audited to be safe and don't emit warnings for these. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: Relocatable kernel supportEric W. Biederman2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch modifies the i386 kernel so that if CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is selected it will be able to be loaded at any 4K aligned address below 1G. The technique used is to compile the decompressor with -fPIC and modify it so the decompressor is fully relocatable. For the main kernel relocations are generated. Resulting in a kernel that is relocatable with no runtime overhead and no need to modify the source code. A reserved 32bit word in the parameters has been assigned to serve as a stack so we figure out where are running. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START cleanupEric W. Biederman2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | Defining __PHYSICAL_START and __KERNEL_START in asm-i386/page.h works but it triggers a full kernel rebuild for the silliest of reasons. This modifies the users to directly use CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and linux/config.h which prevents the full rebuild problem, which makes the code much more maintainer and hopefully user friendly. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Some config.h removalsZachary Amsden2006-10-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | During tracking down a PAE compile failure, I found that config.h was being included in a bunch of places in i386 code. It is no longer necessary, so drop it. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: Fix the EDD code misparsing the command lineH. Peter Anvin2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The EDD code would scan the command line as a fixed array, without taking account of either whitespace, null-termination, the old command-line protocol, late overrides early, or the fact that the command line may not be reachable from INITSEG. This should fix those problems, and enable us to use a longer command line. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] x86: AUX_DEVICE_INFO is one byte long, use 'movb'Diego Calleja2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bugzilla #6552 says: "In arch/i386/boot/setup.S, movw is used instead of movb for PS/2 mouse information, although it is unsigned char. This does not harm, because the jmp instruction overwritten by movw is used before executing movw, and never be used again" I've no idea if this is a real bug or how it gets fixed, so I'm submitting it for review instead of letting it die of boredom in bugzilla. Aditionally to i386, I've changed x86-64, which mirrors the same code. Credits to Yoshinori K. Okuji, who found the problem and suggested a fix. Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* kbuild: introduce utsrelease.hSam Ravnborg2006-07-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | include/linux/version.h contained both actual KERNEL version and UTS_RELEASE that contains a subset from git SHA1 for when kernel was compiled as part of a git repository. This had the unfortunate side-effect that all files including version.h would be recompiled when some git changes was made due to changes SHA1. Split it out so we keep independent parts in separate files. Also update checkversion.pl script to no longer check for UTS_RELEASE. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel2006-06-30
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* Merge branch 'x86-64'Linus Torvalds2006-06-26
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * x86-64: (83 commits) [PATCH] x86_64: x86_64 stack usage debugging [PATCH] x86_64: (resend) x86_64 stack overflow debugging [PATCH] x86_64: msi_apic.c build fix [PATCH] x86_64: i386/x86-64 Add nmi watchdog support for new Intel CPUs [PATCH] x86_64: Avoid broadcasting NMI IPIs [PATCH] x86_64: fix apic error on bootup [PATCH] x86_64: enlarge window for stack growth [PATCH] x86_64: Minor string functions optimizations [PATCH] x86_64: Move export symbols to their C functions [PATCH] x86_64: Standardize i386/x86_64 handling of NMI_VECTOR [PATCH] x86_64: Fix modular pc speaker [PATCH] x86_64: remove sys32_ni_syscall() [PATCH] x86_64: Do not use -ffunction-sections for modules [PATCH] x86_64: Add cpu_relax to apic_wait_icr_idle [PATCH] x86_64: adjust kstack_depth_to_print default [PATCH] i386/x86-64: adjust /proc/interrupts column headings [PATCH] x86_64: Fix race in cpu_local_* on preemptible kernels [PATCH] x86_64: Fix fast check in safe_smp_processor_id [PATCH] x86_64: x86_64 setup.c - printing cmp related boottime information [PATCH] i386/x86-64/ia64: Move polling flag into thread_info_status ... Manual resolve of trivial conflict in arch/i386/kernel/Makefile
| * [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Fix isoimage when syslinux is in /usr/shareAndi Kleen2006-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's like this on SUSE systems. Cc: hpa@zytor.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Consolidate arch/{i386,x86_64}/boot/compressed/misc.cCarl-Daniel Hailfinger2006-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clean up arch/{i386,x86_64}/boot/compressed/misc.c a bit to reduce their differences. Should have zero effect on code generation. Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] fbdev: Firmware EDID fixesAntonino A. Daplas2006-06-26
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | - make firmware edid independent from framebuffer (No need to choose framebuffer just to disable this option - enable this option in X86_64 - check if VBE/DDC function is implemented before calling actual function Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] vesafb: Fix incorrect logo colors in x86_64Antonino A. Daplas2006-04-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bugzilla Bug 6299: A pixel size of 8 bits produces wrong logo colors in x86_64. The driver has 2 methods for setting the color map, using the protected mode interface provided by the video BIOS and directly writing to the VGA registers. The former is not supported in x86_64 and the latter is enabled only in i386. Fix by enabling the latter method in x86_64 only if supported by the BIOS. If both methods are unsupported, change the visual of vesafb to STATIC_PSEUDOCOLOR. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fbdev: Make BIOS EDID reading configurableAntonino A. Daplas2006-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | DDC reading via the Video BIOS may take several tens of seconds with some combination of display cards and monitors. Make this option configurable. It defaults to `y' to minimise disruption. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: "make isoimage" support; FDINITRD= support; minor cleanupsH. Peter Anvin2006-03-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a "make isoimage" to i386 and x86-64, which allows the automatic creation of a bootable CD image. It also adds an option FDINITRD= to include an initrd of the user's choice in generated floppy- or CD boot images. Finally, some minor cleanups of the image generation code. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix EDD to properly ignore signature of non-existing drivesAndrey Borzenkov2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | Some BIOSes do not always set CF on error before return from int13. The patch adds additional check for status being zero (AH == 0). Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: gitignore some autogenerated files for i386Thomas Meyer2006-02-14
| | | | | | | | | Add some more gitignore files for i386 architecture. This files are created during the build process of a i386 kernel. Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* x86: fix "make install" targetLinus Torvalds2006-01-11
| | | | | | | | | Removing the dependency on the boot image build was good, but it also meant that the $< expansion by make needed to be done explicitly. Noted by Stephen Hemminger. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds2006-01-10
|\ | | | | | | Fix up some trivial conflicts in {i386|ia64}/Makefile
| * kbuild: drop vmlinux dependency from "make install"H. Peter Anvin2006-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This removes the dependency from vmlinux to install, thus avoiding the current situation where "make install" has a nasty tendency to leave root-turds in the working directory. It also updates x86-64 to be in sync with i386. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* | [PATCH] vesafb: Drop blank hookAntonino A. Daplas2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: Bugzilla Bug 5351 "After resuming from S3 (suspended while in X), the LCD panel stays black . However, the laptop is up again, and I can SSH into it from another machine. I can get the panel working again, when I first direct video output to the CRT output of the laptop, and then back to LCD (done by repeatedly hitting Fn+F5 buttons on the Toshiba, which directs output to either LCD, CRT or TV) None of this ever happened with older kernels." This bug is due to the recently added vesafb_blank() method in vesafb. It works with CRT displays, but has a high incidence of problems in laptop users. Since CRT users don't really get that much benefit from hardware blanking, drop support for this. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Split out screen_info from tty.hBrian Gerst2006-01-08
|/ | | | | | | | | This makes it possible for boot code to use screen_info without dragging in all of tty.h. Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fbdev: Resurrect hooks to get EDID from firmwareAntonino A. Daplas2005-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | For the i386, code is already present in video.S that gets the EDID from the video BIOS. Make this visible so drivers can also use this data as fallback when i2c does not work. To ensure that the EDID block is returned for the primary graphics adapter only, by check if the IORESOURCE_ROM_SHADOW flag is set. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] vesafb: Add blanking supportAntonino A. Daplas2005-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | Add rudimentary support by manipulating the VGA registers. However, not all vesa modes are VGA compatible, so VGA compatiblity is checked first. Only 2 levels are supported, powerup and powerdown. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Make the bzImage format self-terminatingH. Peter Anvin2005-09-07
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] coverity: i386: build.c: negative return to unsigned fixKAMBAROV, ZAUR2005-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Variable "c" was declared as an unsigned int, but used in: 125 for (i=0 ; (c=read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)))>0 ; i+=c ) 126 if (write(1, buf, c) != c) 127 die("Write call failed"); (akpm: read() can return -1. If it does, we fill the disk up with garbage). Signed-off-by: Zaur Kambarov <zkambarov@coverity.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86_64: coding style and whitespace fixupsDomen Puncer2005-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | Remove some of the unnecessary differences between arch/i386 and arch/x86_64. This patch fixes more whitespace issues, some miscellaneous typos, a wrong URL and a factually incorrect statement about the current boot sector code. Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kexec: x86: add CONFIG_PYSICAL_STARTEric W. Biederman2005-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For one kernel to report a crash another kernel has created we need to have 2 kernels loaded simultaneously in memory. To accomplish this the two kernels need to built to run at different physical addresses. This patch adds the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option to the x86 kernel so we can do just that. You need to know what you are doing and the ramifications are before changing this value, and most users won't care so I have made it depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDED bzImage kernels will work and run at a different address when compiled with this option but they will still load at 1MB. If you need a kernel loaded at a different address as well you need to boot a vmlinux. Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] use ${CROSS_COMPILE}installkernel in arch/*/boot/install.shIan Campbell2005-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The attached patch causes the various arch specific install.sh scripts to look for ${CROSS_COMPILE}installkernel rather than just installkernel (in both /sbin/ and ~/bin/ where the script already did this). This allows you to have e.g. arm-linux-installkernel as a handy way to install on your cross target. It also prevents the script picking up on the host /sbin/installkernel which causes the script to fall through and do the install itself (which is what I actually use myself, with $INSTALL_PATH set). I don't believe it causes back-compatibility problems since calling the host installkernel was never likely to work or be what you wanted when cross compiling anyway. If $CROSS_COMPILE isn't set then nothing changes. I only use ARM and i386 myself but I figured it couldn't hurt to do the whole lot. I've cc'd those who I hope are the arch maintainers for files that I've touched. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <icampbell@arcom.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kbuild: display compile versionCoywolf Qi Hunt2005-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | I am always trying to make sure I've booted the right kernel after a new install. Too paranoid maybe. But I guess there're other people like me. So let's make kbuild display the compile version number at the end to give us a hint. I know we may be booting vmlinux someday, but don't care about it for now. Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] CodingStyle: trivial whitespace fixupsDomen Puncer2005-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When I do a "diff -Nur arch/i386 arch/x86_64" to see what is different between these two architectures, I see some differences due to whitespace issues only. The attached patch removes some of the noise by fixing up the following files: - arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S - arch/i386/boot/video.S - arch/x86_64/boot/bootsect.S Signed-off-by: Daniel Dickman <didickman@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fbdev: edid.h cleanupsAdrian Bunk2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | This patch removes some completely unused code. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Increase number of e820 entries hard limit from 32 to 128Venkatesh Pallipadi2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The specifications that talk about E820 map doesn't have an upper limit on the number of e820 entries. But, today's kernel has a hard limit of 32. With increase in memory size, we are seeing the number of E820 entries reaching close to 32. Patch below bumps the number upto 128. The patch changes the location of EDDBUF in zero-page (as it comes after E820). As, EDDBUF is not used by boot loaders, this patch should not have any effect on bootloader-setup code interface. Patch covers both i386 and x86-64. Tested on: * grub booting bzImage * lilo booting bzImage with EDID info enabled * pxeboot of bzImage Side-effect: bss increases by ~ 2K and init.data increases by ~7.5K on all systems, due to increase in size of static arrays. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-16
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!