Patch for '5.3.7 64-bits kernel doesn't boot on G5 Quad' found (was: Re: PPC64: G5 & 4k/64k page size)

2020-01-07 Thread Romain Dolbeau
Hello all, Great news: Aneesh sent me a patch that solves the problem on my G5 Quad :-) I don't know whether he considers it a 'workaround' or if it's the 'proper' patch for upstream, so beware. It's a one-liner so I attach it to this message: those affected can test it as well to confirm if that

Re: PPC64: G5 & 4k/64k page size

2020-01-07 Thread Bertrand
On 07/01/2020 18:13, Romain Dolbeau wrote: Le mar. 7 janv. 2020 à 16:27, Bertrand a écrit : I've tested the 5.5-rc package with the link you gave hereafter. When you said "working kernel", did you mean it would not crash ? It doesn't for me. I can boot successfully. As your machine is boot

Re: PPC64: G5 & 4k/64k page size

2020-01-07 Thread Romain Dolbeau
Le mar. 7 janv. 2020 à 16:27, Bertrand a écrit : > I've tested the 5.5-rc package with the link you gave hereafter. When > you said "working kernel", did you mean it would not crash ? It doesn't > for me. I can boot successfully. Yes, unlike the default Debian build, this one has 4 KiB page size.

Re: PPC64: G5 & 4k/64k page size

2020-01-07 Thread Bertrand
Oups. Edit : swapon: /dev/sdb5 : pagesize doesn't fit with _swap_ space format On 07/01/2020 16:27, Bertrand wrote: swapon: /dev/sdb5 : pagesize doesn't fit with space space format

Re: PPC64: G5 & 4k/64k page size

2020-01-07 Thread Bertrand
On 06/01/2020 19:30, Romain Dolbeau wrote: Le dim. 5 janv. 2020 à 16:06, Bertrand Dekoninck a écrit : I can now test on powermac 7,3 (with an ATI card) How can I build a deb package of this kernel ? Or is there a package to download somewhere ? I've tested the 5.5-rc package with the link

Re: PPC64: G5 & 4k/64k page size (was: Re: Call for report - G5/PPC970 status)

2020-01-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
On 2020-01-06 8:11 p.m., Romain Dolbeau wrote: > > Unfortunately I don't have a PCIe OpenFirmware ATI card to test the > theory further. FWIW, a non-OF Radeon >= R(V)5xx card should work in Linux (though obviously won't light up in OF itself or MacOS). -- Earthling Michel Dänzer