Re: Kernel broken for Apple powerbooks
Hello!
On 8/28/20 3:41 PM, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
>> Thanks for tracing this down. I'm not sure, however, whether your bug
>> report
>> will get any attention there. It's better to post it on the official
>> kernel
>> mailing list called linuxppc-dev [1] and the kernel bugzilla [2].
>
> Yes, I contacted linuxppc-dev and got much help. There I've got the
> request to open the bug at github. I am sure they will find a fix, but
> I have no ideas about how much time this will take.
Ok, good to know.
> Ok, so I will ask for this config change on the standard package
> src:linux using the already opened bug.
Yes, I posted a proposed patch below. You can adjust the title of your bug
report using the BTS control server.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9d9eddea4b6a..af0a845ae5e9 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+linux (5.8.3-1~exp2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ [ John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ]
+ * [powerpc] Set CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=n to unbreak kernel on Apple PowerBook.
+
+ -- John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Fri, 28 Aug 2020 15:48:32 +0200
+
linux (5.8.3-1~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium
* New upstream release: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.8
diff --git a/debian/config/powerpc/config.powerpc b/debian/config/powerpc/config.powerpc
index 63a07fb2e8f7..de4135891e5c 100644
--- a/debian/config/powerpc/config.powerpc
+++ b/debian/config/powerpc/config.powerpc
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+##
+## file: arch/Kconfig
+##
+CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=n
+
##
## file: arch/powerpc/Kconfig
##
Let me try it on my on Apple iBook G4 first though.
Adrian
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