John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> writes: > On Tue, 2024-02-20 at 04:16 +0100, tuxayo wrote: >> I tried snapshots/2024-01-31/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso >> >> And was able to start booting from usb with: >> boot usb0/disk@1:,\boot\grub\powerpc.elf >> (typed in Open Firmware shell) >> (usb0 is the top port) >> >> Grub worked, and then I tried default install (the 1st option) and it >> started loading during like 2 minutes. >> And then it got stuck with some superposition of the messages >> smp_core99_probe >> and >> the stuff before >> DO-QUIESCE finisedBooting Linux via __start() @ 0x0000000002090000 ... > > There seems to be a regression in the kernel which affects PowerPC 970 > machines, > i.e. PowerMac G5 CPUs. The issue needs to be bisected and reported upstream.
I have a quad G5 that is booting mainline happily. I used to have an iMac G5 but it died. > If you have the time, I would really appreciate if you could test the various > snapshots and let me know which kernel is the first to not work. I expect that > the breakage occurred somewhere around kernel 6.3 or so. Can someone send the .config for the kernel in question? I could try that on my machine here. cheers
