Comment 5 for bug 979253

Great. So, I have built a test kernel with modifications to the fsam7400 driver. Basically, it adds code to set the BIOS pages as executable, which is exactly the problem you are hitting: the driver tries to execute code on pages marked as non-executable.

If you would like test this kernel, you can obtain it here:

  http://people.canonical.com/~henrix/lp979253/

Just download the packages and install them manually. Then, before booting the new kernel make sure you're remove the kernel parameters you added into your grub configuration.

After booting into the new kernel, please report back telling me wether it solved the issue. Also, please send me the output of the following commands:

  uname -a
  cat /proc/cmdline

Thanks.