[PATCH] powerpc/64s: power4 nap fixup in C

Andreas Schwab schwab at linux-m68k.org
Tue Mar 30 03:23:18 AEDT 2021


On Mär 29 2021, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> On Mär 29 2021, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>
>> Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> writes:
>>> There is no need for this to be in asm, use the new intrrupt entry wrapper.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>> Hopefully this works on a real G5 now, but I couldn't reproduce the
>>> problem with QEMU.
>>
>> It still prevents my G5 from booting.
>
> I see differing failures.  What's common is that there is a pause of
> about 60 seconds before the crash occurs.  It looks like the crash
> occurs in power4_idle_nap+0x30/0x34.  Unfortuately, the BootX console is
> too small to see enough.

I was now able to see the messages on the VGA console, and the problem
is actually that the cpus are starting to stall.

Andreas.

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