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SubjectRe: Regression for Power PC in 4.14-rc0 - bisected to commit 31bfdb036f12
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On 09/13/2017 07:37 PM, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> On 14/09/17 10:07, Larry Finger wrote:
>> When booting my PowerBook Aluminum G4, I get a pop-up screen that says "The
>> system is running in low-graphics  mode. Your screen, graphics card, and input
>> device settings could not be detected correctly. You will need to configure
>> these yourself." This is a big-endian 74xx CPU. The lscpu command says it is a
>> PowerBook5,6 model.
>>
>> This problem has been bisected to commit 31bfdb036f12 ("powerpc: Use
>> instruction emulation infrastructure to handle alignment faults"). I am
>> confident of the accuracy of the bisection.
>>
>> Attached is the configuration.
>
> Try with https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/813153/
>
> (A selftest for the instruction emulation will make its way upstream eventually...)

That patch does fix my problem. Thanks for the quick response.

Larry

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