On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 09:20:54PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > > Le 25/06/2024 à 17:19, Tom Rini a écrit : > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 03:12:38PM +0000, LEROY Christophe wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Le 24/06/2024 à 21:30, Tom Rini a écrit : > > > > Hey all, > > > > > > > > Well, once again I need to check my calender reminders since, whoops, > > > > I'm a week late. That said, looking at the list of changes in this > > > > slightly elongated period, I think it's OK. At this point we're a week > > > > out from the release, so it's time for clear and obvious regression > > > > fixes. Ideally ones introduced this release cycle so there's less > > > > chances of unintended side-effects. > > > > > > > > In terms of a changelog, > > > > git log --merges v2024.07-rc4..v2024.07-rc5 > > > > contains what I've pulled but as always, better PR messages and tags > > > > will provide better results here. > > > > > > > > With that, the final release is planned for Monday, July 1st, 2024. > > > > Thanks all! > > > > > > > > > > For your information, I have started testing v2024.07 on my powerpc > > > boards in operational condition and I have a major problem : U-boot > > > doesn't get the Linux kernel started before the watchdog fires. I have > > > to disable watchdog to get it running. > > > > > > This problem doesn't occur with v2024.04. > > > > > > I bisected it to commit 340fdf1303dc ("zlib: Port fix for CVE-2016-9841 > > > to U-Boot") and I also confirm that v2024.07-rc5 works well with that > > > commit reverted on top of it. > > > > > > Any idea of what is going wrong with that commit ? > > > > Are you able to check the zlib performance before/after that commit? > > > > Indeed there's a huge difference. > > Before : 12298074 timebase ticks to decompress kernel > After : 17145906 ticks, that is 40% more time. > > But behind that, we also need to understand why the watchdog is not kept > alive during that time.
That is odd, I would have expected it to have been kept alive. -- Tom
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