Re: prep problems - a couple of questions

On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, David Monro wrote:

I'm encountering a couple of problems with 2.4.0-test3+ on PReP systems.
I've finally traced the major one down to the following: calling
request_region() in prep_setup_arch() causes the machine to stop.
Tracing it a little deeper, it is the call to kmalloc() inside
request_region() which actually fails. I'm guessing this is caused by
the changes to the slab allocator in 2.4.0-test3.

So it looks like we can't afford to call request_region() this early in
the game. Can anybody tell me when it is first safe to use it?

Change all early calls to `request_region(...)' to calls to
`request_resource(&ioport_resource, ...)', also passing pointers to your own
preinitialized `struct resource's.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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