Hi, On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 08:53 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 16:35 +0400, Phileas Fogg wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I wanted to bring to your attention the fact that the PS3 platform is > > broken on Linux 3.7.0. > > > > i'm not able to boot Linux 3.7.0 on my PS3 slim. Linux 3.6.10 boots just > > fine but not 3.7.0 > > When i try to boot Linux 3.7.0 then my PS3 shuts down. > > > > So i cloned the Linux powerpc GIT repository and tried to find out which > > commits broke the PS3 platform. > > After some time I tracked it down to 2 commits: > > Aneesh, do you have any idea what might be going on there ? Can you look > at the PS3 hash code ? It's a bit different from the rest, you might > have missed an update or two...
> Michael, same deal with PACA... I checked these, and Michael's 407821a34fce89b4f0b031dbab5cec7d059f46bc does indeed cause the LV1 hypervisor to panic early, and if that is reverted, Aneesh's 048ee0993ec8360abb0b51bdf8f8721e9ed62ec4 hits a BUG. I'll look at it some more next week. -Geoff > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > commit 407821a34fce89b4f0b031dbab5cec7d059f46bc > > Author: Michael Ellerman <mich...@ellerman.id.au> > > Date: Fri Sep 7 15:31:44 2012 +0000 > > > > powerpc: Initialise paca.data_offset with poison > > > > It's possible for the cpu_possible_mask to change between the time we > > initialise the pacas and the time we setup per_cpu areas. > > > > Obviously impossible cpus shouldn't ever be running, but stranger things > > have happened. So be paranoid and initialise data_offset with a poison > > value in case we don't set it up later. > > > > Based on a patch from Anton Blanchard. > > > > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mich...@ellerman.id.au> > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > commit 048ee0993ec8360abb0b51bdf8f8721e9ed62ec4 > > Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > Date: Mon Sep 10 02:52:55 2012 +0000 > > > > powerpc/mm: Add 64TB support > > > > Increase max addressable range to 64TB. This is not tested on > > real hardware yet. > > > > Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org> > > Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
