Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"
You have
vmlinux -> vmlinux-5.9.0-5-powerpc64
But there is no actual file named "vmlinux-5.9.0-5-powerpc64" in the directory.
Maybe that's your problem?
Rick
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, at 2:55 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi Mathieu,
>
>
> On 12/30/20 10:22 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > There was a regression at some point, did you check:
> >
> > *https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2020/03/msg00035.html
> >
> > What's your kernel version ?
>
>
> Right now, it apparently is an older version:
>
> Linux PPC970FX 4.16.0-1-powerpc64 #1 SMP Debian 4.16.5-1 (2018-04-29)
> ppc64 GNU/Linux
>
> which appears to be around the critical one cited there about issues.
> However, theere the issue was "windfarm not loaded". To me here it seems
> to be loaded, to be almost too aggressive.
>
> In lsmod I see.
>
> windfarm_cpufreq_clamp 3213 1
> windfarm_smu_sat 7464 0
> windfarm_smu_sensors 7223 6
> windfarm_smu_controls 7878 3
> windfarm_pm121 12261 0
> windfarm_pid 2995 1 windfarm_pm121
>
>
> I installed also a newer kernel:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 169543 Apr 29 2018 config-4.16.0-1-powerpc64
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Dec 29 18:21 initrd.img ->
> initrd.img-5.9.0-5-powerpc64
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24420098 Dec 29 18:22 initrd.img-4.16.0-1-powerpc64
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27346593 Dec 29 18:22 initrd.img-5.9.0-5-powerpc64
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Dec 29 14:16 initrd.img.old ->
> initrd.img-4.16.0-1-powerpc64
> drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Dec 29 14:09 lost+found
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4126454 Apr 29 2018 System.map-4.16.0-1-powerpc64
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Dec 29 18:21 vmlinux ->
> vmlinux-5.9.0-5-powerpc64
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25371992 Apr 29 2018 vmlinux-4.16.0-1-powerpc64
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Dec 29 14:16 vmlinux.old ->
> vmlinux-4.16.0-1-powerpc64
>
>
> But yaboot doesn't find it, so I have to boot "old". Maybe this is part
> of the issue.
>
> TO me vimlinux seems as correct as vmlinux.old
>
> yaboot has:
>
> image=/vmlinux
> label=Linux
> read-only
> initrd=/initrd.img
>
> image=/vmlinux.old
> label=old
> read-only
> initrd=/initrd.img.old
>
>
> so it looks all fine to me, why should "old" work and Linux not?
>
>
> Riccardo
>
>
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