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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: paulus@samba•org, Andrey Gusev <ronne@list•ru>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org, stable@kernel•org
Subject: Re: [stable] PROBLEM: 2.6.39 doesn’t boot on POWER MAC
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 14:53:26 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110603055326.GA21323@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1307070645.23876.9.camel@pasglop>

On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:10:45PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 12:41 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 00:00 +0200, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> > > On Sat, 28 May 2011 11:55:14 +0400
> > > Andrey Gusev <ronne@list•ru> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi!
> > > > A kernel 2.6.39 doesn't boot on my POWER MAC G4.
> > > 
> > > Same problem with my dual-G4 MDD. A few more infos:
> > > The machine hangs just after the message "Returning from prom_init" (still
> > > in the OF screen).
> > > The kernel works fine with the option maxcpus=1, but it locks up as soon as
> > > I try to enable the second CPU with echo 1 > /sys.../online.
> > 
> > I just verified that current upstream 3.0-rc1+ does boot fine.
> 
> The fix is:
> 
>   c560bbceaf6b06e52f1ef20131b76a3fdc0a2c19
>   powerpc/4xx: Fix regression in SMP on 476
> 
> It looks like the regression wasn't specific to 476 but to all ppc
> 32-bit SMP setups. The bugs is specific to 2.6.39.
> 
> Greg, it should cherry-pick as-is but here's a copy in case you need it.

Now applied, thanks.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-03  5:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-28  7:55 PROBLEM: 2.6.39 doesn’t boot on POWER MAC Andrey Gusev
2011-05-28 18:09 ` PROBLEM: 2.6.39 doesn't " Tabi Timur-B04825
2011-05-29  7:36   ` Andrey Gusev
2011-05-29 19:16   ` Andrey Gusev
2011-05-29 21:51     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-30 22:11       ` kevin diggs
2011-05-30 22:17         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-31 20:42           ` Andrey Gusev
2011-06-02 22:00 ` PROBLEM: 2.6.39 doesn’t " Giuliano Pochini
2011-06-03  2:41   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-06-03  3:10     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-06-03  5:53       ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-06-03 22:36       ` Giuliano Pochini
2011-06-04  9:02         ` Andrey Gusev

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