Geert, On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> wrote: > When doing a kexec (WIP) on ARAnyM while the screen was blanked, the > kexec'd kernel failed to initialize atafb. If the screen isn't > blanked, it works fine. > > Difference between success and failure is: > > atafb_init: start > atafb_init: initializing Falcon hw > -atafb: screen_base 0068c000 real_screen_base 0068c000 screen_len 311296 > -Determined 640x480, depth 4 > - virtual 640x972 > -Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 > -fb0: frame buffer device, using 304K of video memory > +atafb: screen_base 0068c000 real_screen_base 0068c000 screen_len 4096
That's odd - the screen size has been lost completely. > I guess atafb should unblank on shutdown to restore the videl registers, so it > will detect the correct video mode on re-initialization? That might be the best option (and would be helpful anyway). Cheers, Michael On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> wrote: > When doing a kexec (WIP) on ARAnyM while the screen was blanked, the > kexec'd kernel failed to initialize atafb. If the screen isn't > blanked, it works fine. > > Difference between success and failure is: > > atafb_init: start > atafb_init: initializing Falcon hw > -atafb: screen_base 0068c000 real_screen_base 0068c000 screen_len 311296 > -Determined 640x480, depth 4 > - virtual 640x972 > -Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 > -fb0: frame buffer device, using 304K of video memory > +atafb: screen_base 0068c000 real_screen_base 0068c000 screen_len 4096 > > I guess atafb should unblank on shutdown to restore the videl registers, so it > will detect the correct video mode on re-initialization? > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- > [email protected] > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like > that. > -- Linus Torvalds > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
