GIT kernel with the PowerPC updates 5.11-1 doesn't boot on a FSL P5040 board and in a virtual e5500 QEMU machine

[Christian Zigotzky]

On 22 December 2020 at 02:14pm, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky at xenosoft.de> writes:
> ...
>> Download: http://www.xenosoft.de/MintPPC32-X5000.tar.gz (md5sum:
>> b31c1c1ca1fcf5d4cdf110c4bce11654) The password for both 'root' and
>> 'mintppc' is 'mintppc'.
> ...
>> QEMU command without KVM on macOS Intel: qemu-system-ppc64 -M ppce500
>> -cpu e5500 -m 1024 -kernel uImage -drive
>> format=raw,file=MintPPC32-X5000.img,index=0,if=virtio -netdev
>> user,id=mynet0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=mynet0 -append "rw
>> root=/dev/vda" -device virtio-vga -usb -device usb-ehci,id=ehci -device
>> usb-tablet -device virtio-keyboard-pci -smp 4 -vnc :1
> I was able to boot the above (on powerpc, but not using KVM), using my
> fixes branch.
>
> Please give that branch a test:
>    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/log/?h=fixes
>
>
> cheers
Hello Michael,

I tested your fixes branch today and the kernel boots without any problems.

Thanks a lot for fixing the issue.

Merry Christmas,

Christian