Re: PS3?

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On 09/22/2017 07:32 AM, Simon Richter wrote:
>> I'm trying to get a PS3 to boot with the powerpc64 kernel in stretch,
>> but had no luck so far. kexec from the boot menu happens, then the
>> screen goes blank and stays that way. I have a 3.5 kernel that boots and
>> works fine.
>
> Unfortunately, there was a kernel ABI breakage that made the current
> PS3 petitboot bootloader (kexec) unable to boot kernels newer than
> v3.16-rc1.  Here's the commit:
>
> commit e6a6928c3ea1d0195ed75a091e345696b916c09b (v3.16-rc1)
> Author: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> Date:   Wed Apr 2 15:10:14 2014 -0500
>     of/fdt: Convert FDT functions to use libfdt
>
> I've been working on an updated bootloader, but it is not
> ready yet.  If you would like to help with it, let me know.

What's the version of the dtb? There's some issues around that[1]. I
never heard back in that case, so it never got fixed in the kernel.

Rob

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/10/820