On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Geoff Levand <ge...@infradead.org> wrote: > Hi Simon, > > On 09/22/2017 07:32 AM, Simon Richter wrote: >> I'm trying to get a PS3 to boot with the powerpc64 kernel in stretch, >> but had no luck so far. kexec from the boot menu happens, then the >> screen goes blank and stays that way. I have a 3.5 kernel that boots and >> works fine. > > Unfortunately, there was a kernel ABI breakage that made the current > PS3 petitboot bootloader (kexec) unable to boot kernels newer than > v3.16-rc1. Here's the commit: > > commit e6a6928c3ea1d0195ed75a091e345696b916c09b (v3.16-rc1) > Author: Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org> > Date: Wed Apr 2 15:10:14 2014 -0500 > of/fdt: Convert FDT functions to use libfdt > > I've been working on an updated bootloader, but it is not > ready yet. If you would like to help with it, let me know.
What's the version of the dtb? There's some issues around that[1]. I never heard back in that case, so it never got fixed in the kernel. Rob [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/10/820
