linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.29-rc2 dies on startup

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Message-ID: <87y6wwisdl.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu>
Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:13:58 +0100
From:	Ferenc Wagner <wferi@...f.hu>
To:	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc2 dies on startup

Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> At a guess I'd say that drivers/staging/android/ram_console.c is calling
>> the reed-solomon code earlier than it's expecting.  But that might be
>> totally wrong.
>
> Yes, but it also is trying to use a zero sized buffer at virtual
> address 0 so it will not work much better if you turn off ecc.

This sounds understandable given that the defaults are

CONFIG_ANDROID_RAM_CONSOLE_EARLY_ADDR=0x0
CONFIG_ANDROID_RAM_CONSOLE_EARLY_SIZE=0x0

> This patch (to the android kernel tree) add some validation:

Compiling it now (on the vanilla tree).
-- 
Regards,
Feri.
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