New kernels

[xeno74]

New for the RC6:

• Linux 6.14-rc6 Released With More Panther Lake Additions, AMD Microcode Signing Fix -- phoronix.com
• 6.14-rc6 release announcement
• USB fixes (including Renesas controller fixes)
• Amiga FFS fixes
• XFS fixes
• BTRFS fixes
• exFAT fixes
• Devicetree fix
• NVMe fixes
• Networking fixes
• DRM fixes (including Radeon and Bochs VGA fixes (QEMU: -device VGA,vgamem_mb=256))
• Sound fixes

[xeno74]

Hi All,

Here is the RC6 of kernel 6.14 for the X1000 and X5000.

Download and further information: github.com

Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

[xeno74]

FYI:

• Kernel 6.12.17: e5500: KVM HV compilation error #6
• Old Linux distributions: Issue with compressed kernel modules #7

[Hypex]

I think the new zstd compressed kernel modules are the problem. I will remove the support for zstd compressed kernel modules from the next kernel 6.12 (6.12.18).

I also tested 6.12.17 with my Xenial. It fails to boot. There is a message about needing to do a manual fsck and failing to open a libpre3 or something before dropping to initramfs prompt.

[musa]

Hi
Kernel vmlinux-6.14_rc6 running with Adelie
Have a nice day

[xeno74]

Hi
Kernel vmlinux-6.14_rc6 running with Adelie
Have a nice day

Thanks a lot for testing!

It would be good to know why Debian PPC64’s systemd doesn’t work with the kernel 6.14.

Unfortunately I don’t have Debian PPC64 on my X1000.

[Hypex]

It would be good to know why Debian PPC64’s systemd doesn’t work with the kernel 6.14.

Unfortunately I don’t have Debian PPC64 on my X1000.

I just tested it on Debian 64 and can confirm it does crash. The crash looks similar to the apt crash and what other binaries are unstable. I'm not sure where but I read of some other component crashing because it was compiled as native on a modern POWER machine, because the compiler flags were messed up, and didn't cross compile to G5 ppc64 like it should have.

I also tested the 6.14 RC6 on MATE and it works fine. Though I kept seeing modules dep errors on boot. I'm sure I installed the modules and I can see both text and binary modules dep file so I don't know why it's not there. It actually happens a lot. I check the dep files are there which leaves me with a

[xeno74]

I just tested it on Debian 64 and can confirm it does crash. The crash looks similar to the apt crash and what other binaries are unstable. I'm not sure where but I read of some other component crashing because it was compiled as native on a modern POWER machine, because the compiler flags were messed up, and didn't cross compile to G5 ppc64 like it should have.

Thank you for the test and for publishing the cause of the problem.

I also tested the 6.14 RC6 on MATE and it works fine.

Thanks a lot for testing!

[xeno74]

Workaround if you have issues with compressed kernel modules:

For example for the stable long-term kernel 5.10.234 with the MATE PowerPC Remix 2017:

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   find /lib/modules/5.10.234-powerpc64-smp -name "*.xz" -exec unxz {} \;

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   depmod

[xeno74]

For Zstd compressed kernel modules:

On a new Linux distribution:

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find ./6.12.17-powerpc64-smp -name "*.zst" -exec zstd -d {} \;

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find ./6.12.17-powerpc64-smp -name "*.zst" -exec rm {} \;

Copy it to the old Linux distribution and execute "depmod".