From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Subject: Re: Getting kernel 4.14 to run on PS3 To: Geoff Levand , Sascha Schroeder Cc: Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, petitboot@lists.ozlabs.org References: <9621b73a-12e0-1254-932c-2456238b5526@aethyx.com> <1dd3a437-a20e-c808-749c-4cdb7b9d3675@infradead.org> From: Nathan Whitehorn Message-ID: <4dadeca5-22dc-6ab1-961e-8f989b6f8699@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 13:25:54 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1dd3a437-a20e-c808-749c-4cdb7b9d3675@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 12/08/17 09:37, Geoff Levand wrote: > Hi Sascha, > > On 12/08/2017 01:24 AM, Sascha Schroeder wrote: >> I yesterday tried to compile the newest kernel 4.14 for my PS3 running >> OtherOS++ and "Red Ribbon GNU Linux" from 2014. I even succeeded and >> created the three *.deb files and installed them afterwards. >> >> Unfortunately, my machine did not boot. >> >> As far as I read in very old sources, this could be that my machine is >> using OtherOS++ on firmware 3.55.2 and not the Sony OtherOS prior >> firmware 3.2x. >> >> I'm in contact with the creator from "Red Ribbon" and he mentioned we >> have to manually patch PS3 linux kernel. >> >> So, my question 1 would be: which patches would I need to get the newest >> kernel 4.14 running on my PS3 machine? > I don't know about your machine with OtherOS++ on firmware 3.55.2, > but for FAT and DECR-1400 models with firmware 3.15 or lower the > otheros.bld built from the latest ps3-queue-v4.14 branch of my > ps3-linux repo using either ps3_petitboot_defconfig or > ps3_petitboot_nfs_defconfig will boot if written to flash memory > using ps3-flash-util or the XMB [Install Other OS]. > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux.git > > Be aware that there was a kernel ABI breakage effecting kexec and > that the ps3-petitboot-09.11.30 I released cannot boot kernels newer > than linux-v3.15. See: > > https://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org/msg126348.html (Boot new kernel on PS3) > https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org/msg66884.html (PS3?) I submitted patches to libfdt that resolve this particular ABI breakage yesterday. If the patch gets merged, newer kernels should become bootable again. -Nathan