Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> Oh, and it obsoletes vgacon-fix-zero-size.patch btw ...
>>   
> 
> Well, I think the zero-size allocation oops is a bug anyway.  But is it
> really necessary to disable VGA beyond that?

Yes, it is.  Otherwise it oopses as soon as something is printed on
/dev/tty<any>.  Quite early at boot with "console=tty1", otherwise as
soon as /sbin/getty starts on /dev/tty1.  Oh, and the reason is it
thinks it has an EGA card with 0 lines and 0 columns because we never
ran the real-mode boot code and thus SCREEN_INFO isn't initialized.  The
0x0 screen probably leads to the zero-sized buffer you are catching in
that patch.

cheers,

  Gerd

-- 
Gerd Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
_______________________________________________
Virtualization mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization

Reply via email to