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Date:      Mon, 8 Oct 2018 17:14:06 -0700
From:      Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
To:        Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com>, Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Failed attempt to boot a (non-debug) head -r339076 on an old PowerMac G5 "Quad Core" (built via devel/powerpc64-gcc): Waking up CPU 1
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On 2018-Oct-8, at 1:27 PM, Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf at gmail.com> =
wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 15:37:43 -0400
> Dennis Clarke <dclarke blastwave.org> wrote:
>=20
>> On 10/08/2018 03:04 PM, Mark Millard via freebsd-ppc wrote:
>>> On 2018-Oct-8, at 10:25 AM, Michael Tuexen <tuexen at
>>> fh-muenster.de> wrote:=20
>>>>> On 8. Oct 2018, at 19:00, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>=20
>>>>> [kern.smp.disabled=3D1 is confirmed to enable booting
>>>>> my head -r339076 build on teh "Quad Core", much like
>>>>> the 11.2 reports for "2MHz dual-core".] =20
>>>> Does 11.2 run with smp enabled? =20
>>>=20
>>> [My wording was poor: "reports" in "11.2 reports with
>>> smp enabled" was referring to reports by you and others
>>> on the lists, not screen messages from attempting a
>>> 11.2 boot.]
>>>=20
>>> No clue at this point for the G5 "Quad Core". I have no
>>> 11.x context established, and have not since head
>>> went from 11 to 12, as I remember. Would trying to boot
>>> an installer/live for 11.2 be sufficient to test
>>> this? =20
>>=20
>>=20
>> I have tried over and over to install 11.2 on a G5 with dual PPC970
>> sockets wherein both are dual core. There is no quad core. Never was.
>> Anyways, the install simply doesn't work.
>>=20
>> Dennis
>=20
> It would be helpful to know the last known-good SVN revision, both for
> Head and 11.x, as well as the oldest failing one.  Since my G5 bit the
> dust, I can't check locally.

Admittedly, it is a mix of 11 and 12 but bounds might be:

Earliest known failing (so far):
11.2 Release is -r335563 (by which point 11 possibly picked up
something bad from head)

Latest known working (so far):
head -r333594 (too soon for 11 to have picked up something from
head)

=46rom =
https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/stable-11/r*/powerpc/powerpc64/ke=
rnel.txz
(presuming holding a base.txz constant and just swapping kernels)
In that range for stable-11 I see matches for * of just:

334634
334654
334698
334956
335204
335406
335436
335472
335488
335492
335496
335508
335514
335556

So about 14 versions of 11's kernel seem to be available
in a pre-built form for powerpc64 under the assumption of
"common problem, moved from head to 11".

Of course 11.2's release -r335563 could be included. There
do not seem to be earlier powerpc64 snapshots anywhere near
-r333594's time frame.

That could possibly be used to narrow the range more for 11
without doing builds.

=3D=3D=3D
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
( dsl-only.net went
away in early 2018-Mar)




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