[FSL P50x0] Xorg always restarts again and again after the the PowerPC updates 5.13-1

[Christian Zigotzky]

I have started bisecting again.

Link: https://forum.hyperion-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?p=53106#p53106


> On 6. May 2021, at 10:09, Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> Le 06/05/2021 à 09:56, Christian Zigotzky a écrit :
>> Hi Christophe,
>> Ok, so let's summarise from my side.
>> The issue is in the PowerPC updates 5.13-1. I reverted these and after that the issue is gone.
>> We know that only BookE machines are affected. Book3S machines are working with the PowerPC updates.
>> I think it’s not directly an Xorg issue. It’s more a symptom that Xorg restarts again and again. In my point of view the changes for BookE machines in the PowerPC updates are responsible for this issue.
>> Bisecting costs a lot of time and I don’t have time for my main work anymore.
>> Bisecting is good but sometime you have to check your code yourself. We know all facts and now it’s time to check the code because of BookE compatibility.
>> @All
>> You can test it with QEMU as well. I provide some virtual machines and kernels for testing. Guys, it is really important that you test your changes before you release them.
> 
> 
> So, summary from my side:
> 
> You popped up telling that commit 887f3ceb51cd was the reason of your problem. As I am the one who released that commit, I took a look, and identified that 525642624783 should have fixed it.
> 
> You are working with a 64 bits kernel. My domain is 32 bits kernels.
> 
> I have no problem at all with corenet64_smp_defconfig booting QEMU with any of the commits you pointed.
> 
> On my side QEMU doesn't work at all with the configuration you provided, I don't get any output at all on the screen.
> 
> 
> So how can we progress ?
> 
> I know bisecting is not always easy, and for sure you must have spend a lot of time with all those skipped steps. But it provided us good information anyway and I'm sure we could progress quickly if you can do the few tests I suggested in my last email:
> 
> - Can you check that 887f3ceb51cd with cherry-picked 525642624783 has Xorg working ?
> - Can you bisect between 887f3ceb51cd[good] and 56bec2f9d4d0[bad] to identify first bad commit that stops after loading the dtb and uImage ?
> - Once that first bad commit is identified, can you check whether the preceeding commit with cherry-picked 525642624783 has Xorg working or not ?
> 
> Thanks
> Christophe
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