This patch is incredibly trivial, but it does resolve some of the user confusion as to what "L1-A" actually is.
Clarify printk message to refer to Stop-A (L1-A). Gentoo has a virtually identical patch in their kernel sources. Signed-off-by: Tom 'spot' Callaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~spot --- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Sales Engineer || GPG Fingerprint: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my!
--- linux-2.6.11/kernel/panic.c.BAD 2005-03-03 23:20:53.794641827 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.11/kernel/panic.c 2005-03-03 23:21:38.598830555 -0500 @@ -105,9 +105,9 @@ NORET_TYPE void panic(const char * fmt, #ifdef __sparc__ { extern int stop_a_enabled; - /* Make sure the user can actually press L1-A */ + /* Make sure the user can actually press Stop-A (L1-A) */ stop_a_enabled = 1; - printk(KERN_EMERG "Press L1-A to return to the boot prom\n"); + printk(KERN_EMERG "Press Stop-A (L1-A) to return to the boot prom\n"); } #endif #if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_S390)