Bug#999820: marked as done (linux-image-5.14.0-4-sparc64-smp: kernel fails to boot with niu driver enabled on recent kernels)

2025-02-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#999820:

2021-11-19 Thread Rich
Ah, no, using this patch is a bad idea. It worked fine for most of the day, but then I tried pushing a TB over NFS, and it died with watchdog timeouts and indefinite hangs. That's sad. I guess I'll go for the backup option... - Rich On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 3:19 AM Rich wrote: > > I forgot to i

Bug#999820:

2021-11-19 Thread Rich
I forgot to include context on my own bug. Bisecting this brought me to https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7d5ec3d3612396dc6d4b76366d20ab9fc06f399f . After a few attempts of varying partly-broken-or-panic, I concluded that it seemed nearly correctly initialized at the point that we called n

Bug#999820:

2021-11-19 Thread Rich
I found the following patch generated against 5.14.0 helps and hasn't burned the house down in testing so far. --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c index 860644d182ab..70c08acd3ee5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/s

Bug#999820: linux-image-5.14.0-4-sparc64-smp: kernel fails to boot with niu driver enabled on recent kernels

2021-11-16 Thread Rich Ercolani
Package: src:linux Version: 5.14.16-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: rincebr...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, Trying to boot a recent sparc64 disc on this T5140, it dies on boot with something like: [ 52.521656] niu: niu.c:v1.1 (Apr 22, 2010) [ 52.529379] niu: niu0: Found PHY 002063b0 type MII