Re: Kernel versions 6.x don't boot on Amiga 4000

Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-02-21T14:56:14Z

Hi Adrian,

On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 3:51 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> I tested Debian's most recent m68k kernels from the 6.0.x and 6.1.x series and

Thanks for testing!

> neither of these boot on my Amiga 4000/060. Both get stuck at the ABCDGHIJK
> message.

Looks surprisingly similar to the issue reported by Stan.
Do the mitigations given in
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMuHMdUtkr2zvZiJfLXvs9d_inJbktSNqQQfO1oxnJHZeoYcHg@mail.gmail.com
help?

> FWIW, I noticed that the kernel image itself is already over 7 MB, not sure
> whether this is a problem.

Depends on how much RAM you have ;-)

> Anyone else tried a recent kernel on their Amigas?

I really should start booting on real Amiga hardware again...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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