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Bug#993612: bugs.debian.org: Socionext SynQuacer fails to mount rootfs after upgrade to Bullseye

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Hey Luca!

On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 03:50:52PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
>Control: reassign -1 linux-signed-arm64
>Control: found -1 5.10.46+4, 5.10.46+4~bpo10+1
>Control: tag -1 moreinfo
>Control: severity -1 important
>
>
>On Fri, 03 Sep 2021, Luca Di Stefano wrote:
>> A few days ago I tried to upgrade one of the six Socionext SynQuacers
>> that we have to the latest Debian release.
>> 
>> It was running fine on Buster using the 4.19 kernel and had no previous issues.
>
>[...]
>
>> The next boot sequence would start and get to the point where it would
>> look for the rootfs without finding it and going into initramfs
>> 
>> I've then proceeded to reinstall buster on that machine and it just
>> worked fine, then also tried installing the kernel from backports
>> linux- image-5.10.0-0.bpo.8-arm64 and after reboot it caused the same
>> problem not finding the rootfs and going into initramfs.
>
>I'm not familiar with the hardware of this particular device, but I
>suspect that some necessary driver was (likely inadvertently) excluded
>from the configuration of the 5.10 kernel, but included in 4.19.
>
>Looking at the output from the boot of both kernels should give you an
>idea of what module/device is broken, and providing that to this bug
>will give one of the maintainers of the arm64 kernel a chance of helping
>fix the issue.

I have a synquacer here still and I'll take a look. I noticed on
bullseye release day that USB stuff didn't seem to work in the
installer on the synquacer either. Maybe there's been a regression in
config. :-/

I'll take a look...

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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Bug#993612: bugs.debian.org: Socionext SynQuacer fails to mount rootfs after upgrade to Bullseye Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2021-09-04 20:00 +0200
  Bug#993612: bugs.debian.org: Socionext SynQuacer fails to mount rootfs after upgrade to Bullseye Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2021-09-05 18:10 +0200
    Bug#993612: bugs.debian.org: Socionext SynQuacer fails to mount rootfs after upgrade to Bullseye Mark Brown <broonie@debian.org> - 2022-03-29 02:10 +0200
      Bug#993612: bugs.debian.org: Socionext SynQuacer fails to mount rootfs after upgrade to Bullseye Mark Brown <broonie@debian.org> - 2022-03-29 20:10 +0200

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