Hi, On 20.05.23 22:07, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello! On Sat, 2023-05-20 at 21:51 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote:On 20.05.23 21:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:Hello Frank! On Sat, 2023-05-20 at 20:19 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote:I today noticed that a new Debian kernel is available from [1]. Thanks to whoever built that one - most likely Adrian.The buildd built the kernel, not me ;-).Yeah, sure. :-) Did you also check out 6.2?No, I didn't since Debian's kernel maintainers skipped 6.2:https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=linux&arch=ia64
I see.
Earlier today I built a 6.4.0-rc2 kernel with kernel config based on "config-6.1.0-9-mckinley" and localmodconfig matching the needed modules for my rx2620 **and** rx2800-i2 combined. Unfortunately the resulting kernel "crashes" as soon as udevd starts and that for both systems similarly. But yeah, the initramfs issues are gone for the rx2620. If someone is interested, the error messages are on [3] and [4] for rx2620 and rx2800-i2 respectively. [3]: https://pastebin.com/SAUKbG7Z [4]: https://pastebin.com/v1TTB2x3 Well, rc2 might just be to early to conclude that there is a new error. And it could also be an issue of my kernel config. I'll try to observe how later kernels behave.Maybe you will have time to bisect it tomorrow? :-)Unfortunately not, I'm away tomorrow. Wouldn't it make more sense to wait for the 6.4 release to be sure it's not due to something unrelated to ia64 (1 run takes my rx2800-i2 40 mins and it only produces a handful of modules in that time)?You should cross-compile your kernel. I can build a kernel for my rx2660 on an AMD EPYC in 2-3 minutes.
Oh I don't have new things... :-/ My "newest" x86 MP system is a Sun X4270 w/2 x Xeon X5570s. I recently upgraded its memory to 144 GiB so could compile the kernel(s) in a RAM disk there, not sure how much of a boost that would be. IIRC I used it for cross-compiling sparc64 kernels some time ago.
And it's definitely better to catch the regression before the release as this way you will get the fix landed for 6.4 instead of 6.5.
Cheers, Frank