Yep it was an april fools joke.
for the record:
2 offers for help;
1 post asking me if I mounted a scratch monkey( heh);
1 email begging me to abandon the project for the sake of humanity (and
linux' reputation)
And this adds 1 attempt to use it as corroborating evidence. Who knows, it
might have even been this guy's post I ripped the oops from.
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:16:33PM +0200, Cyrille Ngalle wrote:
> > This is just to reinforce the message below.
>
> And why is it of interest to LKML? I can think if no one here who'd
> be interested in it.
>
> > This crash is ver easy to reproduce.
> >
> > Use bootldr (with the last patch from Nico) [it also happens with
> > Redboot]
>
> It is not a function of the bootloader, this is irrelevent.
>
> Also, I believe that the original posters message was an April Fool's
> joke (was posted on the 1st April to the linux-arm lists).
>
> However, the problem it describes is not, and I do have a fix in my
> tree, but the delta between my last patch and my current tree is one
> line, which hardly seems worth putting out a new ARM patch.
>
> --- linux.rel/arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c Fri Apr 6 19:09:05 2001
> +++ linux/arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c Thu Apr 12 16:30:25 2001
> @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@
> bad_or_fault:
> if (type == TYPE_ERROR)
> goto bad;
> -
> + regs->ARM_pc -= 4;
> /*
> * We got a fault - fix it up, or die.
> */
>
>
> --
> Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
> http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
>
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