From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Michael Neuling To: Jim Keniston Subject: Re: Can't boot benh/powerpc.git kernel In-reply-to: <1289520464.4752.12.camel@localhost> References: <1289418856.2983.23.camel@localhost> <1289426817.2147.1403.camel@pasglop> <1289520464.4752.12.camel@localhost> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:26:17 +1100 Message-ID: <17075.1289877977@neuling.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , In message <1289520464.4752.12.camel@localhost> you wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 09:06 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 11:54 -0800, Jim Keniston wrote: > > > I got Ben's linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc.git source and built it > > > (.config file attached*). It hangs on boot. When I boot it with > > > loglevel=8, its last words are: > > > > First, please try with Linus upstream. The "master" branch in my git > > tree is quite stale, and my next and merge branch are too at the moment > > as I'm still travelling. All our current stuff was merged during the > > last merge window so there's nothing "new" for you to pickup in my tree > > at the moment :-) > > > > If the problem still occurs, I'll have a look next week. > > > > Cheers, > > Ben. > > I built from Linus's git tree, and that kernel doesn't boot, either. > (It doesn't hang, but rather panics during boot. I can provide a > console log if you like.) Yes please. Linus' tree with pseries_defconfig boots fine for me on my POWER5 box. > v2.6.36 and v2.6.37-rc1 boot fine for me. I'll post my nvram-related > patches against v2.6.37-rc1. So it's broken between 37-rc1 and whereever you grabbed Linus tree. That's a fairly small window. Can you bisect it? Mikey