[Bug 396286] Re: [Geode LX] [OLPC] 2.6.31-generic: kernel panic near the end of initramfs

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Testing the mainline 2.6.32 kernel on other LX800-based hardware (Artec
ThinCan DBE61C-USB), I notice that everything boots as normal.

It thus appears that some recent changes in the kernel might have
succeeded in exposing BIOS issues on some specific hardware.

I suppose that we could choose to ignore this bug and move on, but doing
so would pose a problem: an awful lot of Geode-based hardware sold by
different hardware vendors are branded versions of this same FIC ION603.
This includes the Linutop-2, Inveneo desktop, Koolu ... and many others
that came with Ubuntu pre-installed.

Personally, I think that a more positive outcome would involve a
combination of Canonical's technical support (who is known to have
certified some of the above hardware for Ubuntu) and of some of the
above vendors contacting First International Computers to work at
finding a common solution together, which could possibly involve
releasing an updated BIOS along with Ubuntu tools to flash the EPROM
from command line.

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[Geode LX] [OLPC] 2.6.31-generic: kernel panic near the end of initramfs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/396286
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