Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 21:25:01 -0500 From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: r356776 breaks kernel for powerpc64 users Message-ID: <6f8b8c41-b712-ccb0-1655-0a2e1cfc8bf7@blastwave.org> In-Reply-To: <2EEA029D-2C24-42F2-A347-69813B928BC4@yahoo.com> References: <2EEA029D-2C24-42F2-A347-69813B928BC4.ref@yahoo.com> <2EEA029D-2C24-42F2-A347-69813B928BC4@yahoo.com>
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On 2020-01-26 19:27, Mark Millard wrote: > Piotr Kubaj listy at anongoth.pl wrote on > Thu Jan 16 19:56:11 UTC 2020 : > >> revision 356776 breaks booting for powerpc64 users. It reportedly works fine on POWER8, but I get kernel panic on POWER9 (Talos II) right after the usual warning: WITNESS enabled. Kernel panic is uploaded to https://pastebin.com/s8ZaUNS2. >> >> >> @jeff >> Since you commited this patch, can you fix this issue or revert this commit? >> > > Is this still a problem for powerpc64? I've not seen > anything looking like a direct response or like a > status update for this. > > I do see arm report(s) of problems that they also > attributed to head -r356776 . But I've no clue how > good the evidence is generally. An example message > is: > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2020-January/021069.html > > But one part of that is for specifically for going > from -r356767 to the next check-in to head: -r356776 . > That problem likely has good evidence for the > attribution to -r356776 . > I will give current a try and report back. However I am hesitant to do so as I have a working G5 right now. For science ... I will do the experiment. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optionalhelp
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