Re: Radeon NI: GIT kernel with the nislands_smc commit doesn't boot on a Freescale P5040 board and P.A.Semi Nemo board

["Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>]

On 4/30/21 10:26, Deucher, Alexander wrote:
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> + Gustavo, amd-gfx
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>
>> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2021 8:00 AM
>> To: gustavoars@kernel.org; Deucher, Alexander 
>> <Alexander.Deucher@amd.com>
>> Cc: R.T.Dickinson <rtd2@xtra.co.nz>; Darren Stevens <darren@stevens- 
>> zone.net>; mad skateman <madskateman@gmail.com>; linuxppc-dev 
>> <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>; Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>; 
>> Maling list - DRI developers <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>; Michel 
>> Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>; Christian Zigotzky <info@xenosoft.de>
>> Subject: Radeon NI: GIT kernel with the nislands_smc commit doesn't 
>> boot on a Freescale P5040 board and P.A.Semi Nemo board
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The Nemo board (A-EON AmigaOne X1000) [1] and the FSL P5040 Cyrus+ 
>> board (A-EON AmigaOne X5000) [2] with installed AMD Radeon HD6970 NI 
>> graphics cards (Cayman XT) [3] don't boot with the latest git kernel 
>> anymore after the commit "drm/radeon/nislands_smc.h: Replace 
>> one-element array with flexible-array member in struct NISLANDS_SMC_SWSTATE branch" [4].
>> This git kernel boots in a virtual e5500 QEMU machine with a VirtIO-GPU [5].
>>
>> I bisected today [6].
>>
>> Result: drm/radeon/nislands_smc.h: Replace one-element array with 
>> flexible-array member in struct NISLANDS_SMC_SWSTATE branch
>> (434fb1e7444a2efc3a4ebd950c7f771ebfcffa31) [4] is the first bad commit.
>>
>> I was able to revert this commit [7] and after a new compiling, the 
>> kernel boots without any problems on my AmigaOnes.
>>
>> After that I created a patch for reverting this commit for new git test kernels.
>> [3]
>>
>> The kernel compiles and boots with this patch on my AmigaOnes. Please 
>> find attached the kernel config files.
>>
>> Please check the first bad commit.

I'll have a look.

Thanks for the report!
--
Gustavo

>>
>> Thanks,
>> Christian
>>
>> [1]
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>> [5] qemu-system-ppc64 -M ppce500 -cpu e5500 -m 1024 -kernel uImage - 
>> drive format=raw,file=MintPPC32-X5000.img,index=0,if=virtio -netdev
>> user,id=mynet0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=mynet0 -append "rw 
>> root=/dev/vda" -device virtio-vga -usb -device usb-ehci,id=ehci 
>> -device usb- tablet -device virtio-keyboard-pci -smp 4 -vnc :1 [6] 
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>> [7] git revert 434fb1e7444a2efc3a4ebd950c7f771ebfcffa3