3.0-rc1: powerpc hangs at Kernel virtual memory layout

[Christian Kujau]

On Tue, 31 May 2011 at 16:50, Christian Kujau wrote:
> trying to boot 3.0-rc1 on powerpc32 only progresses until:
> 
>   > Kernel virtual memory layout:
>   >   * 0xfffcf000..0xfffff000  : fixmap

After hours (and hours!) of git-bisecting, it said:

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ccc7c28af205888798b51b6cbc0b557ac1170a49 is the first bad commit
commit ccc7c28af205888798b51b6cbc0b557ac1170a49
Author: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Apr 1 13:26:52 2011 +0200

    ssb: pci: implement serdes workaround
    
    Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
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When I reverted this one from the gi-bisected tree, the box continued to 
boot (until it got stuck again during IDE/CDROM init, but that may be a 
different story). I'l; try to revert this from a vanilla 3.0-rc1 and see 
if it helps

Thanks,
Christian.

Full gist-bisect-log: http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.0-rc1/

> And then the system hangs, does not respond to keyboard (sysrq does not 
> seem to work on this PowerBook G4). But after a while the system reboots 
> itself, so I guess the machine panicked but did not print anything on the 
> screen.
> 
> Full messages (picture), config & (working) dmesg:
> 
>    http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.0-rc1/
> 
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