Hi,
Fons Rademakers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> on my new HP Omnibook 4150 (366 MHz model) when accessing /proc/apm
> I get the following kernel fault:
>
> general protection fault: f000
^^^^
This is your APM BIOS attempting to use a real mode segment while in
protected mode. i.e. it is a bug in your BIOS. Complain to HP.
We have seen a few of these recently, except all the others are in
the power off code in the BIOS wher we can work around it by returning
to real mode before attempting to power off. Here we cannot do this.
> EIP: 0050:[<000041e4>]
^^^^
This is the selector for the APM BIOS 16 bit code segment.
> apm_bios_call
Yeah, this is where the kernel does the call back into the BIOS code.
> apm_get_power_status
> apm_get_info
> proc_file_read
> sys_read
>
> I tried also a 2.0.36 kernel but that kernel faulted already during bootup
> when detecting the apm bios! Btw, on an Omnibook 4150 (300 MHz model) apm
> under 2.0.36 worked fine.
Different BIOS version.
Cheers,
Stephen
--
Stephen Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
