linux-kernel - Re: Linux 4.9: Reported regressions as of Sunday, 2016-10-30

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Date:   Mon, 31 Oct 2016 18:57:27 +0100
From:   Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:     Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.9: Reported regressions as of Sunday, 2016-10-30

On Okt 30 2016, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 14:20 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> 
>> Desc: PPC32: fails to boot on my PowerBook G4 Aluminum; bisected to
>> commit 05fd007e4629
>> Repo: 2016-10-20 https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kerne
>> l.org/msg1253391.html
>> Stat: 2016-10-22 https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kerne
>> l.org/msg1255516.html https://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/
>> 2016-10/msg00176.html https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/18/142
>> Note: Larry made a hack that works for him.
>
> This breaks framebuffer console on ppc64 I've been told as well, I
> heard...
>
> I'm at KS now, hard to get you more details, but there's something
> fishy here either with the commit or with something we do on ppc with
> fbdev that this commit breaks.

See the thread at <http://marc.info/?t=147678252000003&r=1&w=2>.

Andreas.

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