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SubjectRe: Kernel bug in 5.7 for PPC32 on PowerBook G4 - bisected to commit 697ece7
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Hi Larry,

Le 23/05/2020 à 19:24, Larry Finger a écrit :
> Hi Christophe,
>
> Although kernel 5.7.0-rc2 appeared to boot cleanly, it failed on my G4
> when I tried to generate a new kernel. The following BUG message is logged:
>

[...]

>
> This problem was bisected to commit 697ece7 ("powerpc/32s: reorder Linux
> PTE bits to better match Hash PTE bits").

Being reversed in new -rc , see
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/87sgfsf4hs.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au/

>
> If I had done more rigorous tests earlier, I would have found the bug
> with more time to fix it before release of 5.7, but every other problem
> I have found happened at boot, not when the machine had to swap.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry

Christophe

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