On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 01:58:13PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I probably just don't understand something about the git repo, but I am > having no luck bisecting the kernel after updating 3 days ago to a kernel > that crashed at boot. > > # git bisect start > # git bisect good 99976934274d > # git bisect bad 2542189532b3 > # make -j12 kernel > # shutdown -r now > PANIC and boot kernel.old (9976934274d) > # git bisect bad > /usr/src updates to 1d482ca6e37b9d34ccd3c7d > > Can someone explain what happened? How can any /usr/src hash provide a > /usr/src lacking Makefile? How can I bisect any further?
I suspect you're probably bisecting across a merge commit. If so, you need to use the --first-parent argument to start to avoid taking right hand side which is off in the vendor tree and not a valid FreeBSD source tree. -- Brooks
