Hey Luca! On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 03:50:52PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: >Control: reassign -1 linux-signed-arm64 >Control: found -1 5.10.46+4, 5.10.46+4~bpo10+1 >Control: tag -1 moreinfo >Control: severity -1 important > > >On Fri, 03 Sep 2021, Luca Di Stefano wrote: >> A few days ago I tried to upgrade one of the six Socionext SynQuacers >> that we have to the latest Debian release. >> >> It was running fine on Buster using the 4.19 kernel and had no previous >> issues. > >[...] > >> The next boot sequence would start and get to the point where it would >> look for the rootfs without finding it and going into initramfs >> >> I've then proceeded to reinstall buster on that machine and it just >> worked fine, then also tried installing the kernel from backports >> linux- image-5.10.0-0.bpo.8-arm64 and after reboot it caused the same >> problem not finding the rootfs and going into initramfs. > >I'm not familiar with the hardware of this particular device, but I >suspect that some necessary driver was (likely inadvertently) excluded >from the configuration of the 5.10 kernel, but included in 4.19. > >Looking at the output from the boot of both kernels should give you an >idea of what module/device is broken, and providing that to this bug >will give one of the maintainers of the arm64 kernel a chance of helping >fix the issue.
I have a synquacer here still and I'll take a look. I noticed on bullseye release day that USB stuff didn't seem to work in the installer on the synquacer either. Maybe there's been a regression in config. :-/ I'll take a look... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html
