v4.17 regression: PowerMac G3 won't boot, was Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] of: cache phandle nodes to reduce cost of of_find_node_by_phandle()

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2018-08-31 at 06:28 -0600, Mac User wrote:
> On 8/30/18 10:49 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2018-08-31 at 14:35 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > Assuming you are using BootX (or miBoot), can you try this patch ?
> 
> Yes, I'm using BootX.
> 
> Thanks to Finn for applying the patch (I wouldn't have been sure
> which source tree to apply it to).
> 
> Thepatched kernel (Finn's vmlinux-4.18.0-00001-gd44cf7e41c19)
> boots normally on my Beige G3 Desktop using BootX.
> 
> Thanks for working on this!

Well it's still a sign of something wrong with the new code, my patch
just band-aids by creating fake phandles. I would be interesting to
figure out what causes the new code to barf.

Cheers,
Ben.