On Sun, 2023-10-01 at 12:56 -0600, Stan Johnson wrote: > On a PowerMac G4 MDD (2 CPUs, 2 GiB), I tested the following stock > kernels with a current Debian SID installation: > > v6.5 : smp works, non-smp crashes (oops panic) > v6.6-rc3 : smp works, non-smp works > > Since the latest stock kernel (v6.6-rc3) works for both smp and non-smp, > a bisect may not needed (whatever the problem was with v6.5 non-smp > appears to have been fixed).
It works because the patch from this thread is already merged in v6.6-rc3 [1]. > For these tests, I started with a config file derived from Debian's > "config-6.5.0-1-powerpc-smp" (a compressed version is attached to this > message as "config-test.xz"). Note that I'm not able to create Debian's > powerpc kernel and modules using the config files that are distributed > in /boot (if anyone knows the location of the config files that Debian > uses to create its powerpc kernels and modules, please post a link). You can build a kernel with Debian's configuration. You just have to disable the kernel config options CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEY and CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY. Adrian > [1] > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cff9b2332ab762b7e0586c793c431a8f2ea4db04 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913