PASEMI: PA6T board doesn't boot with the RC1 of kernel 4.2 anymore

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Jul 9 11:42:15 AEST 2015


On Thu, 2015-07-09 at 08:36 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-07-08 at 20:00 +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> > Dear Linuxppc-dev mailing list,
> > 
> > I used git bisect and found out that the following commit is the problem.
> > 
> > commit 3ceaccdf92073d193f0bfbe24280dd736e3fed86
> > Author: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at linux.intel.com>
> 
> There is no way that commit affects anything on that platform, it only
> changes a file in arch/x86 that isn't compiled on a powerpc build. You
> must have made a mistake in your bisection, possibly the one "sometimes
> boots" should be considered good, but I can't say for sure.
> 
> Michael has a PA6T board at work, so I assume he will see if he can
> reproduce.

Yeah I can't reproduce here.

I think you need to bisect again and look for the particular crash you
reported. If you see that crash then mark it bad, else mark it good.

cheers




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