Re: Kernel bug in 5.7 for PPC32 on PowerBook G4 - bisected to commit 697ece7
From: Christophe Leroy
Date: Sat May 23 2020 - 13:30:30 EST
Hi Larry,
Le 23/05/2020 Ã 19:24, Larry Finger a ÃcritÂ:
Hi Christophe,
Although kernel 5.7.0-rc2 appeared to boot cleanly, it failed on my G4
when I tried to generate a new kernel. The following BUG message is logged:
[...]
This problem was bisected to commit 697ece7 ("powerpc/32s: reorder Linux
PTE bits to better match Hash PTE bits").
Being reversed in new -rc , see
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/87sgfsf4hs.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
If I had done more rigorous tests earlier, I would have found the bug
with more time to fix it before release of 5.7, but every other problem
I have found happened at boot, not when the machine had to swap.
Thanks,
Larry
Christophe