On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 11:21:57AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 09:54:15PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > When I attempt to boot a 5.17.0 kernel built from the kernel.org > > sources, I see disk sector errors on my "sda" device, and the boot > > process hangs at the point where "systemd-udevd.service" starts. > > > > Rebooting on 5.16.0 works with no disk I/O errors of any kind. > > Oh, you can run a 5.16.y kernel on Alpha? I have had problems > with everything since 5.9.y with rare, random, corruptions in > memory in user space (exhibiting as glibc detected memory > corruptions or segfaults).
Did we have this painted into the "SMP vs. not-SMP" corner at one point? Miata is an automatic not-SMP case for hand-built kernels for that architecture, which might explain why I'm not seeing the problems with user space memory corruption. Just successfully booted on v5.17-rc1 a little while ago. Moving on to "-rc2". --Bob