Subject: Re: Call for report - G5/PPC970 status

From: jjhdiederen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 08:32:07 +0100

PowerMac 7,3 G5 2.5 DP PCI-X Mid-2004 is affected with this bug. The 
machine freezes at boot due to the new ppc64 kernel.

Regards,
Jeroen Diederen

Romain Dolbeau schreef op 2019-12-11 08:19:
> Le mer. 11 déc. 2019 à 03:20, Aneesh Kumar K.V
> <[email-masked]> a écrit :
>> The PowerMac system we have internally was not able to recreate this.
> 
> To narrow down the issue - is that a PCI/PCI-X (7,3 [1]) or PCIe G5 
> (11,2 [1]) ?
> Single, dual or quad ?
> 
> Same question to anyone else with a G5 / PPC970 - what is it and does
> it boot recent PPC64 Linux kernel ?
> 
> Christian from the original report has a quad, like me (so 
> powermac11,2).
> 
> There was also a report of a powermac7.3 working in the original 
> discussion,
> single or dual unspecified.
> 
> So this might be a Quad thing, or a more general 11,2 thing...
> 
>> At this point, I am not sure what would cause the Machine check with
>> that patch series because we have not changed the VA bits in that 
>> patch.
> 
> Any test I could run that would help you tracking the bug ?
> 
> Cordially,
> 
> Romain
> 
> [1] 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G5#Product_revision_history>
> 
> 
> --
> Romain Dolbeau