Issues with the first PowerPC updates for the kernel 6.1

[Andrew Donnellan]

On Wed, 2022-10-12 at 08:51 +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I use the Nemo board with a PASemi PA6T CPU and have some issues
> since the first PowerPC updates for the kernel 6.1.
> 
> I successfully compiled the git kernel with the first PowerPC updates
> two days ago.
> 
> Unfortunately this kernel is really dangerous. Many things for
> example Network Manager and LightDM don't work anymore and produced
> several gigabyte of config files till the partition has been filled.
> 
> I deleted some files like the resolv.conf that had a size over 200
> GB!
> 
> Unfortunately, MintPPC was still damaged. For example LightDM doesn't
> work anymore and the MATE desktop doesn't display any icons anymore
> because Caja wasn't able to reserve memory anymore.
> 
> In this case, bisecting isn't an option and I have to wait some
> weeks. It is really difficult to find the issue if the userland will
> damaged again and again.

Could you try with
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/20221012035335.866440-1-npiggin@gmail.com/
to see if your issues are related to that?

Andrew

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Andrew Donnellan    OzLabs, ADL Canberra
ajd at linux.ibm.com   IBM Australia Limited