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Kernel 5.8

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 1:41 pm
by xeno74

Re: Kernel 5.8

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 2:01 pm
by xeno74
I was able to revert the DRM updates with the following command:

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git revert faa392181a0bd42c5478175cef601adeecdc91b6 -m 1
Unfortunately it doesn't solve the boot issue.

Re: Kernel 5.8

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 2:16 pm
by xeno74
I was able to revert the commit powerpc/mm: drop platform defined pmd_mknotpresent() with the following command:

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git revert 124cb3a62d54b271d7acfcf6596cb6a88766a344
It doesn't solve the issue either.

Re: Kernel 5.8

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 2:32 pm
by acefnq
Confirmed no boot with Kernel 5.8 alpha.

ace

Re: Kernel 5.8

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 2:36 pm
by xeno74
acefnq wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2020 2:32 pm Confirmed no boot with Kernel 5.8 alpha.

ace

Thanks for testing.

I was able to revert the commit powerpc: use __vmalloc_node in alloc_vm_stack with the following command:

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git revert cb0849a990b2928760bc38561e8d33b554196e25
OK, this revert doesn't solve the issue.

Re: Kernel 5.8

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 2:55 pm
by xeno74
I was able to revert the commit powerpc: remove __ioremap_at and __iounmap_at with the following command:

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git revert 91f03f297c46bd2ced1e73fc9a668292145b1135
OK, this commit isn't the problem.

Re: Kernel 5.8

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 2:58 pm
by xeno74
I wasn't able to revert the commit powerpc: add an ioremap_phb helper (electra_cf) with the following command:

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git revert b274014c6d191ec92c4921d5e84c90f6ed2f38a0

Re: Kernel 5.8

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 3:05 pm
by xeno74
I was able to revert the commit
gpu/drm: remove the powerpc hack in drm_legacy_sg_alloc
with the following command:

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git revert d28ff991b2e23049c30584c1d97681087193879f
This doesn't solve the issue.

Re: Kernel 5.8

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 4:17 pm
by xeno74
BTW, it doesn't boot in a virtual QEMU PowerPC machine either.

Re: Kernel 5.8

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 6:00 pm
by xeno74
I reported the boot issue to the Linuxppc-mailing list today.

Link: Boot issue with the latest Git kernel