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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Regression in 32-bit ppc kernel
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:00:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F98117C.7080309@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1335327081.21961.28.camel@pasglop>

On 04/24/2012 11:11 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 21:37 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>>>> Somewhere between v3.2 and v3.3, the kernel in my Powerbook G4
>> started issuing
>>>> the following traceback on bootup:
>>>
>>> Does it continue working afterward or not at all ?
>>>
>>> Are you using the old IDE driver or the newer libata based
>> pata_macio ?
>>
>> Yes, it finishes the boot, and appears to work correctly. If a device
>> is
>> missing, I do not know what it is.
>>
>> I think I am using the old IDE driver.
>>
> Interesting. Does it make a difference if you switch to pata_macio ?

After a few tries, I managed to change over to pata_macio. Fortunately, most of 
the system used dev-by-id or UUID, thus most of the process was getting all the 
kernel pieces built in.

Unfortunately, the original problem remains. I have resumed the bisecting - only 
11 steps to go. I should have it by Friday! :)

Larry

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-25 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-24 22:58 Regression in 32-bit ppc kernel Larry Finger
2012-04-24 23:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-25  2:37   ` Larry Finger
2012-04-25  4:11     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-25 15:00       ` Larry Finger [this message]
2012-04-25 21:44         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-27 15:38           ` Larry Finger
2012-04-27 22:26             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-28  0:02               ` Larry Finger
2012-04-28  0:42                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-28 18:09                   ` Larry Finger
2012-04-28 18:23                     ` Andreas Schwab
2012-04-28 22:48                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-28 23:17                         ` Larry Finger
2012-04-28 23:23                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-28 23:30                             ` Larry Finger
2012-04-28 22:41                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-28 22:42                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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