Control: reassign -1 src:linux Control: forcemerge 735172 -1 On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 05:50 +0000, Ruben Silveira wrote: > Description and steps to reproduce: > - QNAP TS-212 (cpuinfo = 'QNAP TS-119/TS-219') with 3.11-2-kirkwood and flash-kernel 3.12; > - Installed 3.12-1-kirkwood (update-initramfs and flash-kernel executed automatically and normally); > - Rebooted; > - System not up; > - Connected serial console; > - Rebooted; > - System hangs just after kernel being (successfully) loaded by U-Boot, with no output whatsoever. You see "Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel." as the last thing, right? > I was able to restore an old backup (flash and rootfs), repeat the > whole process and get to the same exact result. > > I suppose this has to do with DT - Device Tree and could be (loosely) > related to bugs #731345 and #734769. Actually AFAICT this is #735172 which is a kernel bug unrelated to the recent flash-kernel changes, reassigning and merging. > The solution appears to be the appendage of DTB to the kernel, but I > have little to no knowledge in patching flash-kernel to get to a > working solution. This issue is being observed even on platforms which have no DTB support yet (e.g. TS-419). Have you actually tried with an appended DTB and seen it work or are you speculating? Thanks, Ian.
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