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Hi,
do you think that:
printk(KERN_EMERG "Press L1-A to return to the boot prom\n") is a typo?
Regards Nico

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Hi,

Quoted 3 lines · Nico Golde

do you think that:
printk(KERN_EMERG "Press L1-A to return to the boot prom\n") is a typo?

sorry, forgot: kernel/panic.c:126

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Quoted 4 lines · Nico Golde

Hi,
do you think that:
printk(KERN_EMERG "Press L1-A to return to the boot prom\n") is a typo?

On Sparc, no. What do you think is a typo about it?

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Hello Matthew,

Quoted 7 lines · Matthew Wilcox
Quoted 4 lines · Nico Golde

Hi,
do you think that:
printk(KERN_EMERG "Press L1-A to return to the boot prom\n") is a typo?

On Sparc, no. What do you think is a typo about it?

I thought it is because if I understood boot prom correctly it is something which has to do with networking and booting. But here a user interaction is meant (because of the press) and in my opinion this part of the panic code has nothing to do with networking.
regards nico

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Quoting Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Sent on Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:35:24 +0100

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printk(KERN_EMERG "Press L1-A to return to the boot prom\n") is a typo?

On Sparc, no. What do you think is a typo about it?

I'd expect "prompt" instead of "prom". what does 'prom' mean in Sparc, for curiosity?

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Quoted 10 lines · Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez

Quoting Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Sent on Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:35:24 +0100

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printk(KERN_EMERG "Press L1-A to return to the boot prom\n") is a typo?

On Sparc, no. What do you think is a typo about it?

I'd expect "prompt" instead of "prom". what does 'prom' mean in Sparc, for curiosity?

I'm assuming, Programmable Read-Only Memory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROM

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Quoted 7 lines · Nico Golde
Quoted 6 lines · Matthew Wilcox
Quoted 4 lines · Nico Golde

Hi,
do you think that:
printk(KERN_EMERG "Press L1-A to return to the boot prom\n") is a typo?

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Quoted 1 line

On Sparc, no. What do you think is a typo about it?

I thought it is because if I understood boot prom correctly it is something which has to do with networking and booting. But here a user interaction is meant (because of the press) and in my opinion this part of the panic code has nothing to do with networking.

I think you misunderstand what a boot prom is. There is no typo here.

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Quoted 9 lines · Nico Golde

Hello Matthew,

Quoted 6 lines · Matthew Wilcox
Quoted 4 lines · Nico Golde

Hi,
do you think that:
printk(KERN_EMERG "Press L1-A to return to the boot prom\n") is a typo?

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Quoted 1 line

On Sparc, no. What do you think is a typo about it?

I thought it is because if I understood boot prom correctly it is something which has to do with networking and booting. But here a user interaction is meant (because of the press) and in my opinion this part of the panic code has nothing to do with networking.
regards nico

please use more recent sources.
for people not used to sparc the message got really improved:

                printk(KERN_EMERG "Press Stop-A (L8-A) to return to the boot prom\n");

remember my first time glaring at it. :)

anyway if you aren't exposed to sparc you could ignore code inside of #ifdef __sparc__

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Quoting Nish Aravamudan <[email protected]> Sent on Tue, 28 Jun 2005 08:36:25 -0700

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I'd expect "prompt" instead of "prom". what does 'prom' mean in Sparc, for curiosity?

I'm assuming, Programmable Read-Only Memory:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROM

in this case, I'd expect to be "PROM", as it becomes clearer that it's an acronym. on my ignorance, I thought it was "boot prompt", due to all- lowercase writing.

and yes, I never used a Sparc before :)

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Hi

Quoted 10 lines · Matthew Wilcox
Quoted 9 lines · Nico Golde
Quoted 7 lines · Matthew Wilcox
Quoted 4 lines · Nico Golde

Hi,
do you think that:
printk(KERN_EMERG "Press L1-A to return to the boot prom\n") is a typo?

On Sparc, no. What do you think is a typo about it?

Quoted 7 lines
Quoted 5 lines

I thought it is because if I understood boot prom correctly it is something which has to do with networking and booting. But here a user interaction is meant (because of the press) and in my opinion this part of the panic code has nothing to do with networking.

I think you misunderstand what a boot prom is. There is no typo here.

Please explain, why it is no typo..
regards nico

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Hi,

Quoted 11 lines · maximilian attems
Quoted 9 lines · Nico Golde
Quoted 7 lines · Matthew Wilcox
Quoted 4 lines · Nico Golde

Hi,
do you think that:
printk(KERN_EMERG "Press L1-A to return to the boot prom\n") is a typo?

On Sparc, no. What do you think is a typo about it?

Quoted 8 lines
Quoted 6 lines

I thought it is because if I understood boot prom correctly it is something which has to do with networking and booting. But here a user interaction is meant (because of the press) and in my opinion this part of the panic code has nothing to do with networking.
regards nico

please use more recent sources.

i used 2.6.12-git10

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for people not used to sparc the message got really improved:

                printk(KERN_EMERG "Press Stop-A (L8-A) to return to the boot prom\n");

remember my first time glaring at it. :)

anyway if you aren't exposed to sparc you could ignore code inside of #ifdef __sparc__

ok thanks!
regards nico

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Quoted 11 lines · Matthew Wilcox
Quoted 9 lines · Nico Golde
Quoted 6 lines · Matthew Wilcox
Quoted 4 lines · Nico Golde

Hi,
do you think that:
printk(KERN_EMERG "Press L1-A to return to the boot prom\n") is a typo?

On Sparc, no. What do you think is a typo about it?

I thought it is because if I understood boot prom correctly it is something which has to do with networking and booting.

I think you misunderstand what a boot prom is. There is no typo here.

Quoted 1 line · [email protected] said:

Please explain, why it is no typo..

It means to return to running the program that is in the boot prom, which, yes, is a programmable ROM. This is a standard Sun colloquialism.

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