On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Timothy Coltman wrote:

> Also kernel-related, but far less important, when it starts up the
> screen doesn't clear and I get the colour bars at the top of the screen
> and when the kernel is trying to find ADFS harddiscs (on the internal
> connector) I get a 5 by 2 character mini-freakout. It doesn't cause any
> problems but is there any reason why it happens (it may be useful to
> mention that I use a Simtec IDE i/face).
> 
The screen clear failure was caused by some pmap changes (probably when
the pmap code became a lot less aggressive about cache flushes). Kernels
which are more current than the snapshot don't have ths problem. I also
have a Simtec IDE interface and have never seen any screen corruption when
the internal interface is probing but I guess that it could be caused by
the same thing. Again more current kernels that the snapshot have this
problem fixed.

Mike