PS3: Strange issue with kexec and FreeBSD loader

[Phileas Fogg]

Phileas Fogg wrote:
> I could finally find the commit which broke FreeBSD booting in linux-stable.git
> repository.
> The Linux 3.4-rc1 seems to have this problem already.
>
> --------------
> commit 5375871d432ae9fc581014ac117b96aaee3cd0c7
> Merge: b57cb72 dfbc2d7
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
> Date:   Wed Mar 21 18:55:10 2012 -0700
>
>      Merge branch 'next' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
>
>      Pull powerpc merge from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
>       "Here's the powerpc batch for this merge window.  It is going to be a
>        bit more nasty than usual as in touching things outside of
>        arch/powerpc mostly due to the big iSeriesectomy :-) We finally got
>        rid of the bugger (legacy iSeries support) which was a PITA to
>        maintain and that nobody really used anymore.
>
>        Here are some of the highlights:
>
>         - Legacy iSeries is gone.  Thanks Stephen ! There's still some bits
>           and pieces remaining if you do a grep -ir series arch/powerpc but
>           they are harmless and will be removed in the next few weeks
>           hopefully.
>
>         - The 'fadump' functionality (Firmware Assisted Dump) replaces the
>           previous (equivalent) "pHyp assisted dump"...  it's a rewrite of a
>           mechanism to get the hypervisor to do crash dumps on pSeries, the
>           new implementation hopefully being much more reliable.  Thanks
>           Mahesh Salgaonkar.
>
>         - The "EEH" code (pSeries PCI error handling & recovery) got a big
>           spring cleaning, motivated by the need to be able to implement a
>           new backend for it on top of some new different type of firwmare.
>
>           The work isn't complete yet, but a good chunk of the cleanups is
>           there.  Note that this adds a field to struct device_node which is
>           not very nice and which Grant objects to.  I will have a patch soon
>           that moves that to a powerpc private data structure (hopefully
>           before rc1) and we'll improve things further later on (hopefully
>           getting rid of the need for that pointer completely).  Thanks Gavin
>           Shan.
>
>         - I dug into our exception & interrupt handling code to improve the
>           way we do lazy interrupt handling (and make it work properly with
>           "edge" triggered interrupt sources), and while at it found & fixed
>           a wagon of issues in those areas, including adding support for page
>           fault retry & fatal signals on page faults.
>
>         - Your usual random batch of small fixes & updates, including a bunch
>           of new embedded boards, both Freescale and APM based ones, etc..."
>
>      I fixed up some conflicts with the generalized irq-domain changes from
>      Grant Likely, hopefully correctly.
>
>      * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
> (141 commits)
>        powerpc/ps3: Do not adjust the wrapper load address
>        powerpc: Remove the rest of the legacy iSeries include files
>        powerpc: Remove the remaining CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES pieces
>        init: Remove CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES
>        powerpc: Remove FW_FEATURE ISERIES from arch code
>        tty/hvc_vio: FW_FEATURE_ISERIES is no longer selectable
>        powerpc/spufs: Fix double unlocks
>        powerpc/5200: convert mpc5200 to use of_platform_populate()
>        powerpc/mpc5200: add options to mpc5200_defconfig
>        powerpc/mpc52xx: add a4m072 board support
>        powerpc/mpc5200: update mpc5200_defconfig to fit for charon board
>        Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.txt: Checkpatch cleanup
>        powerpc/44x: Add additional device support for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone
> board
>        powerpc/44x: Add support PCI-E for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
>        MAINTAINERS: Update PowerPC 4xx tree
>        powerpc/44x: The bug fixed support for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
>        powerpc: document the FSL MPIC message register binding
>        powerpc: add support for MPIC message register API
>        powerpc/fsl: Added aliased MSIIR register address to MSI node in dts
>        powerpc/85xx: mpc8548cds - add 36-bit dts
>        ...
>
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Reverting this commit fixes the problem with SHA256 checkusm in the purgatory 
code too. I'm trying to find out which commit exactly caused the problem.

regards