Hello Adrian, Il giorno ven, 28/08/2020 alle 15.25 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: > Hi Guiseppe! > > On 8/28/20 3:14 PM, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > > since two months I am debugging the kernel boot process on an Apple > > powerbook because latest Debian kernels do not boot. I already > > opened a bug against debian src:linux package[1]. > > Finally, I found the problem and I reported it upstream [2]. > > Thanks for tracing this down. I'm not sure, however, whether your bug > report > will get any attention there. It's better to post it on the official > kernel > mailing list called linuxppc-dev [1] and the kernel bugzilla [2].
Yes, I contacted linuxppc-dev and got much help. There I've got the request to open the bug at github. I am sure they will find a fix, but I have no ideas about how much time this will take. > > It seems the fix will require some time, but in the meantime, the > > kernel may be built and work if CONFIG_VMAP_STACK is not set > > Since powerpc is not currently a released architecture, who should I > > bug for changing this option for the kernels available at https://www.ports.debian.org/> > ? > > > > Or, is there any ppc32 porter able to propose a patch? > > You still report your bugs against src:linux. Even in Debian Ports, virtually > all source changes are made through the normal packages in unstable. We > don't have separate package sources in Debian Ports. Ok, so I will ask for this config change on the standard package src:linux using the already opened bug. Thank you, Giuseppe
