Comment 157 for bug 396286
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| Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk) wrote Re: [Geode LX] [OLPC] 2.6.31-generic: kernel panic near the end of initramfs | #157 |
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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.