Re: [XenPPC] [xenppc-unstable] [ppc] some OF implementations do not take kindly to closing console ihandles.

[Maria Butrico <butrico@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately, if we close stdin we get no console output on the js20.

Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 19:02 -0400, Jimi Xenidis wrote:
>   
> > On Jun 8, 2006, at 6:30 PM, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 22:10 +0000, Xen patchbot-xenppc-unstable wrote:
> > >       
> > > > [ppc] some OF implementations do not take kindly to closing  
> > > > console ihandles.
> > > >         
> > > Not closing stdin/stdout has caused real bugs with Linux on pSeries.
> > >       
> > I thought that was a pmac problem, but I see from linux that it is  
> > indeed a pSeries problem
> >     
> > > Not closing stdin/stdout has caused real bugs with Linux on pSeries.
> > > After much hair loss, it was discovered that a USB controller was  
> > > DMAing
> > > over kernel memory in very very early boot, which doesn't sound like a
> > > problem I'd like to debug, so I don't like this patch.
> > >
> > > Can we create a platform blacklist for this logic?
> > >       
> > We don't have a concept of platform yet, so we are just maple and  
> > JS2x and this patch is sufficient, and tested.
> > prom_init.c suggests that it is safe to always close stdin for these  
> > platforms so I'll put the close back in.
> > agreed?
> >     
> Maria, is that ok with you?
>
>   


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