Re: [PATCH 0/7] kernel-yocto: conslidated pull request

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 15:30 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> Now that 4.12 + headers are in the tree, this is the next (and
> possibly final)
> around of -stable updates for the active kernels.
> 
> I've built and booted them on all four architectures. But as usual,
> this is a lot of combinations to confirm.
> 
> The 4.12 update doesn't specifically address the kernel traces that
> RP has been seeing, but it also doesn't regress things here. I'd be
> interested to know if they help/hinder in the search to find the root
> cause.
> 
> I'll of course continue to track it down myself.
> 
> I also have some functionality fixes as well as configuration updates
> as part of this update.

I ran these on the autobuilder. We did see:

https://autobuilder.yocto.io/builders/nightly-ppc/builds/465

which is the latest 4.12 kernel and the latest qemu hanging with no
boot output (but the pid did appear).

So we're still seeing something odd with ppc occasionally. Why? Don't
know :(

Cheers,

Richard