[pkg-fso-maint] Kernel troubles

[Luca Capello]

Hi Gregor!

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:21:12 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> What I've found out so far is:
> * I get a kernel oops as described in
>   http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-userland/2009-February/001155.html
>   (dmesg output attached).
> * The oops happens "late", i.e. the applications from .xsession are
>   already started; at the screen I have around this time the
>   "Requesting resource: ..." messages.  
> * As you assumed in your reply to Christian, it seems to be wifi
>   related; if I keep wicd from starting at runlevel 2 all is fine
>   (except that I can't start it later because I have no eth0).

Can you subscribe to the smartphones-kernel mailing list and reply to
Christian's mail confirming the same problem, please?  Or, is anyone
other aware it this bug has already been reported upstream
(i.e. Openmoko)?

> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:49:54 +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
>> Another thing you can do to track the bugs
>> is to check if the bus is present in the FSO-MS5 kernel as well,
>> something like the following (not tested):
>
> Thanks for the detailed (and perfectly working instructions, I just
> had to run `depmod 2.6.28-rc4' after booting into the kernel).

Ah, yes, I forgot about that because with the Debian kernel package you
do not need it.

> Result: I get the same oops (cf. dmesg.om.txt, which has no diff
> output against dmesg.txt).

This is good since it means that the Debian kernel package is not to be
blamed ;-)

Without kidding, agricola.d.o is already building a new kernel package
with the ar6000 driver as module: it would be nice if Christian and you
could test it to be sure the oops is not present without it.  I will
contact you in private once the kernel package is ready.

FWIW, this is anyway the way to go: if the ar6000 driver compiled as
module works at the same level as the in-kernel version, then I will
upload a new package with this change.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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