Hi, I'm running Debian on an old Powermac (32-bit PPC G4). I'm seeing kernel panics with 6.5.0-1. Everything seems to be fine with:
Linux powermac-g4 6.4.0-4-powerpc #1 Debian 6.4.13-1 (2023-08-31) ppc GNU/Linux 0.000000] MSR: 00009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 48024242 XER: 00000000 0.000000] 0.000000] GPR00: c0b29234 c13fde60 c12f3580 c12f3580 c12f3580 c13fde74 0000 cc0 00000000 0.000000] GPR08: 00000000 00009032 00000000 00000000 28024242 00000000 0000 000 00000004 0.000000] GPR16: 02d159f4 00000000 02d1515c c00f6d38 00000000 00000004 0000 cc0 00000000 0.000000] GPR24: c12f398c c0b29704 00000001 00000003 c12f3580 c1305080 c12f 5cc c12f3580 0.000000] NIP [c0b28e4c] __schedule+0x364/0x920 0.000000] LR [c0b29234] __schedule+0x74c/0x920 0.000000] --- interrupt: 900 0.000000] [c13fdeb0] [c0b29704] __cond_resched+0x40/060 0.000000] [c13fdec0] [c0b2b5f0] mutex_lock_killable+0x24/0x74 0.000000] [c13fdee0] [c02c3930] pcpu_alloc+0x54c/0x798 0.000000] [c13fdf50] [c00f6d38] alloc_desc.irsa.0+0x60/0x174 0.000000] [c13fdf80] [c1199c58] early_irq_init+0x70/0x9c 0.000000] [c13fdfa0] [c1183abc] start_kernel+0x4e4/0x640 0.000000] [c13fdff0] [00003540] 0x3540 0.000000] Code: 7d2a01a4 4c00012c 4bffff28 7c0802a6 90010004 60000000 9421f e0 7c0802a6 3d20c141 93e1001c 90010024 83e9c294 <943f1ff0> 7fe1fb78 48b24909 80 10000 0.000000] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- 0.000000] 0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! 0.000000] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle t ask! ]--- -- Dan Whitehouse GPG: 3AA4 369C 86E1 4939 D420 AB25 D0DC 7BDD CA92 AD2E Telephone: +44(0)203 0955088