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From: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
To: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Can't boot benh/powerpc.git kernel
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:26:17 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17075.1289877977@neuling.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1289520464.4752.12.camel@localhost>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-16  3:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-10 19:54 Can't boot benh/powerpc.git kernel Jim Keniston
2010-11-10 22:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-11-12  0:07   ` Jim Keniston
2010-11-12  2:29     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-11-16  3:26     ` Michael Neuling [this message]
2010-11-17  1:51       ` Jim Keniston
2010-11-17  2:03         ` Michael Neuling
2010-11-17 19:00           ` Jim Keniston
2010-11-18  2:32             ` [PATCH] powerpc: fix call to subpage_protection() Michael Neuling
2010-11-18 12:21               ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-18 20:24                 ` Michael Neuling
2010-11-18 21:53                   ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-18 18:23               ` Jim Keniston
2010-11-18 20:06                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-11-30 11:06                   ` Milton Miller
2010-11-30 11:08                   ` Milton Miller
2010-11-30 20:55                     ` Jim Keniston

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