Hi Rob, On 10/06/2017 10:47 AM, Rob Herring wrote: > 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.
The current petitboot uses Linux-v2.6.30.9. The dts shows '/dts-v1/'. Here's the source: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/ps3.dts?h=v2.6.30.9 -Geoff
