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Roland wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 9:17 pm Should the 6.12.4 boot without any other changes to the U-boot variables than the "uImage-6.12"?

Roland wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 9:17 pm When I simply placed it into my usual variable string, "load mmc 0:1 1000000 uImage-6.12;load mmc 0:1 1d00000 cyrus_5020.dtb;load mmc 0:1 2000000 uInitrd-5.10", I did not get MintPPC loaded. The kernel itself was loaded normally as far as I could see, but it did not seem find the root file system at all...

Roland wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 9:17 pm or is there possibly missing a NVMe disk driver...?

Git bisect is like a little wizard that walks you through recent commits, asks you if they are good or bad, and narrows down the broken commit.
Git bisect starts with the midpoint commit. The midpoint commit is between the initial good commit and the initial bad commit.
If the midpoint commit was good, you know the commit that introduced the change is between your midpoint and the initial bad commit.
If the midpoint commit was bad, you know the commit that introduced the change is between your midpoint and the initial good commit.
After that git bisect selects a new midpoint in the area where the commit was bad. And this is repeated over and over again till the bad commit has been found.

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   git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git a

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   git bisect start

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   git bisect good adc218676eef25575469234709c2d87185ca223a

   (Good: Linux 6.12)

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   git bisect bad 40384c840ea1944d7c5a392e8975ed088ecf0b37

   (Bad: Linux 6.13-rc1)
   Output:

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   Bisecting: 6011 revisions left to test after this (roughly 13 steps)
   [071b34dcf71523a559b6c39f5d21a268a9531b50] Merge tag 'sound-6.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound

5. git bisect good
   Output:

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   Bisecting: 2956 revisions left to test after this (roughly 12 steps)
   [3e51108c72e8adbcf3180ed40527a2a9d2d0123b] Merge tag 'input-for-v6.13-rc0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input

6. git bisect bad
   Output:

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   Bisecting: 1531 revisions left to test after this (roughly 11 steps)
   [1f8bdc31c7222578a209146247c650055f3f4f40] Merge tag 'amd-drm-next-6.13-2024-11-06' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/agd5f/linux into drm-next

7. git bisect good
   Output:

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   Bisecting: 768 revisions left to test after this (roughly 10 steps)
   [060fc106b6854d3289d838ac3c98eb17afb261d7] Merge tag 'unicode-next-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/krisman/unicode

8. git bisect good
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   Bisecting: 428 revisions left to test after this (roughly 9 steps)
   [42d9e8b7ccddee75989283cf7477305cfe3776ff] Merge tag 'powerpc-6.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

9. git bisect good
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   Bisecting: 220 revisions left to test after this (roughly 8 steps)
   [b467ab82a9fde4b46c0cd2c299220857afb0e0d4] KVM: x86: expose MSR_PLATFORM_INFO as a feature MSR

10. git bisect bad
    Output:

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    Bisecting: 103 revisions left to test after this (roughly 7 steps)
    [e3e0f9b7ae280f2f479f74ef7799f4108d0e7f77] Merge tag 'kvm-riscv-6.13-1' of https://github.com/kvm-riscv/linux into HEAD

11. git bisect bad
    Output:

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    Bisecting: 51 revisions left to test after this (roughly 6 steps)
    [c9be85dabb376299504e0d391d15662c0edf8273] KVM: PPC: e500: Mark "struct page" dirty in kvmppc_e500_shadow_map()

12. git bisect bad (It seems bad because the host system doesn't boot - Maybe another issue)
    Output:

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    Bisecting: 25 revisions left to test after this (roughly 5 steps)
    [12fac89950996e556a99eb16f0359307ed4c2566] KVM: Use plain "struct page" pointer instead of single-entry array

13. git bisect bad (It seems bad because the host system doesn't boot - Maybe another issue)
    Output:

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    Bisecting: 12 revisions left to test after this (roughly 4 steps)
    [eec1e5db464eba928273b27246122d157fd0eff8] KVM: Annotate that all paths in hva_to_pfn() might sleep

    I have to stop bisecting because the X5000 doesn't boot with the last 2 test kernels and I don't really know if these kernels are bad or good.
    
    Cheers,
    Christian

xeno74 wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 11:50 pm Which boot arguments do you use?

Please boot without the uInitrd-5.10.

Roland wrote: Wed Dec 18, 2024 2:11 pm

xeno74 wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 11:50 pm Which boot arguments do you use?

root=LABEL=Mint mem=3500M

Please boot without the uInitrd-5.10.

Then I could not use the 'Label' for choosing the root filesystem! I am not going to relearn and move back to the ancien boot system... Rather I use older kernels, if the possibility to use uInitrd has been removed from the newest ones.

xeno74 wrote: Wed Dec 18, 2024 3:32 pm I just wanted to know if it boots without the uInitrd-5.10.

It boots and works on my X5000/40. Maybe we need a new uInitrd but we need to find out if the uInitrd is the problem.

xeno74 wrote: Wed Dec 18, 2024 9:16 pm Download: uInitrd-6.12

dracut: Scanning for all btrfs devices

Roland wrote: Thu Dec 19, 2024 3:06 pm Thanks! I Dowloaded and tested it, but booting still works only up to 6.10-alpha3 .

xeno74 wrote: Thu Dec 19, 2024 5:31 pmI tested the new uInitrd a lot today and it works great.

Roland wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2024 2:46 pm What string did you use in fstab to define the 'root'?

#
# See fstab(5).
#
# <file system>	<dir>	<type>	<options>		<dump>	<pass>
tmpfs		/tmp	tmpfs	defaults,nosuid,nodev   0       0

Roland wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2024 2:46 pm And do you have a swap partition on your system? Has it been defined in '/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume'?
(I do not have one).