On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 08:37:24AM -0400, Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] 
wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Brad Boyer wrote:
> 
>   > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:11:32PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
>   > > > What is supposed to happen after 'Trying to im_free...' ?
>   > >
>   > > Attaching the full log. The isa stuff is probably related to the 
> graphic card.
>   > >
>   >
>   > > Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing 
> disabled
>   > > pmac_zilog: 0.6 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>   > > pmac_zilog: Error registering serial device, disabling pmac_zilog.
>   > > pmac_zilog: Did another serial driver already claim the minors?
>   > > Trying to im_free nonexistent area (d00008008216c000)
>   > > Trying to im_free nonexistent area (d00008008216e000)
>   >
>   > Here is the problem. The 8250/16550 driver used to have a check to make
>   > it bail out on all PowerMac models. It used to print out a message to
>   > that fact, too. The pmac_zilog driver is dying a miserable death because
>   > it thinks it should be the only serial driver, but in this case it isn't.
>   >
>   >   Brad Boyer
>   >   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   >
> 
> I see.  Comparing drivers/serial/8250.c between the debian kernel source
> packages for testing (2.6.15-8) and unstable (2.6.16-12) shows a number
> of missing ifdefs.  But are these differences because changes which need
> to be continued were just not applied to 2.6.16, or did someone feel
> that these ifdefs were no longer needed and removed them?

Indeed, that was the patch. It is disabled, probablybecause it doesn't apply
anymore, and needs redoing.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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