Re: [PATCH 00/14] alpha: cleanups for 6.10

[Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>]

On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 10:15:10PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, May 3, 2024, at 18:06, Matt Turner wrote:
> > On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 4:12 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Al Viro did another series for alpha to address all the known build
> >> issues. I rebased his patches without any further changes and included
> >> it as a baseline for my work here to avoid conflicts.
> 
> I've pushed out the series with the additional Acks to
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic.git/log/?h=alpha-cleanup-6.9
> and merged it into the main asm-generic branch for 6.10.
> 
> Can you give this a quick test on one of your machines to make
> sure I didn't introduce a stupid regression somewhere?

I built a dp264 specific kernel and its working fine on an XP1000
(EV67 arch).  Just built a generic kernel (as that's probably a more
important test) and that is also working fine on the XP1000.

I also built a titan specific kernel to test on an ES45 (SMP EV68
arch) but that OOPSes early in the boot process with a kernel null
pointer access.  I suspect that has nothing to do with your patches
as I have a recollection that I have seen that OOPS before. So I
tried the same generic kernel that I have running on the XP1000 but
that fails to unpack at the initial boot stage (!) with:

aboot> 9
aboot: loading uncompressed vmlinuz.test...
aboot: loading compressed vmlinuz.test...
aboot: Can't load kernel.
  Memory at fffffc0000310000 - fffffc0000f45df7 (PHDR 0) is Busy (Reserved)

unzip: invalid exec header
aboot> 

Cheers,
Michael.