Re: PS3?

[Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>]

Hi Rob,

On 10/06/2017 10:47 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> 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.


The current petitboot uses Linux-v2.6.30.9.  The dts shows '/dts-v1/'.
Here's the source:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/ps3.dts?h=v2.6.30.9

-Geoff