Issues with the first PowerPC updates for the kernel 6.1

[Christian Zigotzky]

Hi Andrew,

Does this patch also affect 64-bit kernels?

We use often 32-bit userlands with 64-bit kernels.

Cheers,
Christian

> On 12. Oct 2022, at 09:56, Andrew Donnellan <ajd at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Donnellan    OzLabs, ADL Canberra
> ajd at linux.ibm.com   IBM Australia Limited
>