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| Started by | Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> |
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| First post | 2017-09-14 02:40 +0200 |
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Re: Regression for Power PC in 4.14-rc0 - bisected to commit 31bfdb036f12 Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> - 2017-09-14 02:40 +0200
Re: Regression for Power PC in 4.14-rc0 - bisected to commit 31bfdb036f12 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> - 2017-09-14 03:00 +0200
| From | Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> |
|---|---|
| Date | 2017-09-14 02:40 +0200 |
| Subject | Re: Regression for Power PC in 4.14-rc0 - bisected to commit 31bfdb036f12 |
| Message-ID | <upqmd-64c-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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...)
--
Andrew Donnellan OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com IBM Australia Limited
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| From | Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> |
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| Date | 2017-09-14 03:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <upqFA-6cM-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #1731992 |
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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