Kernel 3.15: Boot problems with a PA6T board

[Christian Zigotzky]

On 31.05.2014 12:28, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> On 29.05.2014 04:48, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 13:25 +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>>> On 28.05.2014 10:53, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>>>> Hi Michael,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your answer and thank you for your help. :-)
>>>>
>>>> On 28.05.2014 06:23, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 01:08 +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm going to guess that cd427485357c0c4b99f69719251baacf25946e11 is
>>>>> BAD. Can
>>>>> you please confirm or deny that?
>>>> It's not BAD. It boots.
>> Hmm, interesting.
>>
>>>>> If cd42748 is *good*, then you'll need to do a bigger bisect from
>>>>> d8ff9cd to
>>>>> 18a1a7a.
>>> OK :-)
>>>
>>> -> git clone
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 
>>> linux2-git
>>> -> git bisect start
>>> -> git bisect good d8ff9cdf68fd119d491f3de90e1a612afc2f3b2b
>>> -> git bisect bad 18a1a7a1d862ae0794a0179473d08a414dd49234
>>>
>>> Output:
>>> Bisecting: 5900 revisions left to test after this (roughly 13 steps)
>>> [cb1595563880a81dab6eab9a5ecb4520d2e76077] Merge tag 'tty-3.15-rc1' of
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
>>>
>>> Unfortunately it doesn't boot. :-(
>> OK. So you do:
>>
>> $ git bisect bad
>>
>> And it will pick a new commit for you to test. Repeat that ~13 times 
>> and you
>> should have identified the bad commit.
> OK :-)
>
> git bisect bad
> Bisecting: 2902 revisions left to test after this (roughly 12 steps)
> [b22f136071b1a797e96b3ee6fb0dc32625bd152e] staging: rtl8821ae: Fix 
> quoted string split across lines <- Kernel boots :-)
>
> What shall I do next?
OK, I know it: git bisect good

-- Christian