Uwe =?utf-8?Q?Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= writes: > You reported this issue about 6.18 while running 6.1. Does that > mean that 6.1 works fine? If so, can you bisect over the packaged > kernel packages to find out when the problem was introduced? Also > trying 6.19 (currently in experimental) would be a good test.
Heh. linux-image-6.1.0-9-powerpc64 works without any issues, yes. No issues requiring modules be blacklisted. And, while I am at it, linux-image-6.18.15+deb14-powerpc64 works more or less as expected with ehci_pci blacklisted, too. The 6.1.0-9 kernel package (and the grub packages installed on this machine) are from an 11.0.0 vintage ppc64 netinstall ISO. I think from https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-05-14/debian-11.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso There were grub bugs that on the 12.x and 13.x installer ISOs that prevented me getting the installation image to even start a kernel. And I haven't yet tried the grub-ieee1275 2.14-2 packages. But that is an issue for different bug report. Back to the topic at hand... I'd be happy bisecting kernel packages and reporting results. But will need a little help locating the archives for unreleased architectures. Any pointers in that direction would be great. > Another thing that might be worth to try: There are two different > flavours for powerpc kernel: the normal ones and the 64k pages ones. > IIUC your machine should be able to work with both flavours. It > would be obscure but not totally unheard of, if this makes a > difference. I will give that a try and report results, too. Probably sooner than the kernel package bisecting process. > Other than that it might be worth to forward upstream to the USB and > powerpc maintainers. But if you can do the bisection I suggest to > wait with that and then include your findings in that report. Sounds like a reasonable plan. > > Unfortunately for our purposes here, this IBM beast is being > > gifted to a friend sometime soon. I think I have it until 10 > > March. But am happy to try new kernel packages until such time as > > it leaves my possession. > > If this happens before the bug details are worked out and said > friend won't continue the investigation, we'll probably close this > bug. I understand. Unreleased architecture, unreproducible... I've started working with the -64k kernel package. Expect some updates soon. Thanks! - Aaron
