New kernels

[xeno74]

kernel vmlinux-6-14_rc7 running with Void .
Sending screenshot to my main computer with Kdeconnect

Kdeconnect - Great idea! Thank you for testing!

[Hypex]

Just backtracking a bit...

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:

Thanks. Got it working. I had reverted my 5.10.234 kernel back to 5.10.232 after issues on Xenial. Applied the workaround for both and also 6.12.17.

Reinstated 5.10.234 kernel and booted it with Xenial. Working fine again.

[xeno74]

Thanks. Got it working. I had reverted my 5.10.234 kernel back to 5.10.232 after issues on Xenial. Applied the workaround for both and also 6.12.17.

Reinstated 5.10.234 kernel and booted it with Xenial. Working fine again.

Great! Thank you for testing the workaround!

@All

Alternative download link for the RC7: linux-image-6.14.0-rc7-X1000_e5500.tar.gz

[Hypex]

Alternative download link for the RC7: linux-image-6.14.0-rc7-X1000_e5500.tar.gz

Testing and working fine on MATE 2017 Zesty.

By comparison 6.x kernels work better than on Xenial. I don't recall if any 6.x kernels worked on that now. So currently restricted it to 5.10.

[xeno74]

Testing and working fine on MATE 2017 Zesty.

Many thanks for testing!

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I released the new stable long-term kernel 5.10.235 with non-compressed kernel modules today.

Download: github.com

Alternative download link: linux-image-5.10.235-X1000_e5500.tar.gz

This kernel has been patched with the dpaa-v2.patch because of an issue with DPAA on Ubuntu 16.04.

It's suitable for old Linux distributions which don't work with the latest kernels for example Ubuntu 10.04.
It's also suitable if you have some issues with the latest kernels.

Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

[musa]

Hi
Testing Debian 32 with vmlinux-6.14_rc7 booting ok
There was a mesa update but not the cure .
Testing Debian 64 with vmlinux-6.14?rc7 kernel panic with systemd : illegal instruction (4) at 3fff9ba23000 (and more) same as last time I test.

[xeno74]

Hi
Testing Debian 32 with vmlinux-6.14_rc7 booting ok
There was a mesa update but not the cure .
Testing Debian 64 with vmlinux-6.14?rc7 kernel panic with systemd : illegal instruction (4) at 3fff9ba23000 (and more) same as last time I test.

Thank you very much for testing the RC7 with Debian 32-bit and 64-bit!

I think systemd has been compiled for new POWER CPUs so it doesn't work on our systems anymore. Hypex has already reported it on the Debian PowerPC mailing list.

Does Debian PPC64 work with the stable long-term kernel 5.10.235?

[Hypex]

Hi All,

I released the new stable long-term kernel 5.10.235 with non-compressed kernel modules today.

Installed and working. I've tested it both with Precise and Xenial. Precise booted fast but Xenial was delayed because I hadn't installed the modules yet which causes hangs when it needs to translate a root label to a device.

I wonder if system needs to be notified of new modules? Something a standard kernel package might do. It's just that after I installed 5.10.235 kernel and modules to Precise, on the next boot it printed a few messages on screen about a FAIL. I could see one of them was about a modules.dep, a constant re-occurrence, but I checked and the files are certainly there. I can even cat the modules.dep out of a terminal without root or sudo.

The stranger thing is, after booting there is no sign! A dmesg reveals nothing and shows no sign of the errors on screen! I get out the log viewer to check the boot.log, kern.log and syslog. But I usually find nothing or it's too big and slow. I wish the screen boot log would be stored in one place and not spread all over the place. Made more complicated by systemd and its journal now. Half the time I can never find what I want and end up redirecting console to serial just so I can grab a log.

[Hypex]

Testing Debian 64 with vmlinux-6.14?rc7 kernel panic with systemd : illegal instruction (4) at 3fff9ba23000 (and more) same as last time I test.

Have you updated recently? This is exactly what happens with my new Debian 64 install. Systemd is corrupt and crashes. But apt was broken even before then and crashes. Bit hard to boot and install packages.