New kernels

[xeno74]

There must have been many good changes.

On that note, alpha 5 continues the trend, also booting up well on Mate and Mint.

Great! Thanks a lot for testing!

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I have released the alpha6 of kernel 6.18.

Unfortunately, there are PCI issues so the kernel has boot problems.

Further information: Boot problems after the pci-v6.18-changes #17

I reported this issue to the kernel developers yesterday.

Link: [PPC] Boot problems after the pci-v6.18-changes -- Linux PCI subsystem development

Cheers,
Christian

[Hypex]

Hi All,

I have released the alpha6 of kernel 6.18.

I happened to check and found it there before it was announced.

Unfortunately, there are PCI issues so the kernel has boot problems.

Is this an X5000 thing? I noticed an e5500 patch. The X1000 alpha 6 I'm testing right now (on MATE and Mint) runs nice and stable as I type.

I have noticed these messages appeared. One about an executable stack. Another about EMI.

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[   16.198025] process '/bin/fstype' started with executable stack
[   97.740469] usb usb1-port1: disabled by hub (EMI?), re-enabling...
[/code

[xeno74]

Is this an X5000 thing? I noticed an e5500 patch. The X1000 alpha 6 I'm testing right now (on MATE and Mint) runs nice and stable as I type.

Strange. I have the PCI issue on my X1000 too.

[Hypex]

Strange. I have the PCI issue on my X1000 too.

Really? That is strange. Usually my X1000 shows up with some strange problem at times. Well, if it helps I can grab a boot log. I didn't see any signs of instability when I tested alpha 6 on my X1000.

[xeno74]

Strange. I have the PCI issue on my X1000 too.

Really? That is strange. Usually my X1000 shows up with some strange problem at times. Well, if it helps I can grab a boot log. I didn't see any signs of instability when I tested alpha 6 on my X1000.

Hi Hypex,

Yes, that's strange. Good to know that it works for you. We found the problematic commit that causes boot problems on my X1000 and X5000.

I released the alpha7 of kernel 6.18 today.

The vmlinux-6.18, zImage-6.18 and uImage-6.18 are with the problematic commit.

The vmlinux-6.18-2, zImage-6.18-2 and uImage-6.18-2 are without the problematic commit.

Please test one kernel with and one kernel without the problematic commit.

Thanks,
Christian

[xeno74]

Hypex,

It seems that my Radeon HD6870 and my HD5870 have problems with the new PCI code.

Further information: [PPC] Boot problems after the pci-v6.18-changes

Cheers,
Christian

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I released the alpha8 of kernel 6.18 with the pci.patch (reverting patch) for X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs) today.

Download and further information: github.com

Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian