Re: PPC64: G5 & 4k/64k page size (was: Re: Call for report - G5/PPC970 status)
- To: Romain Dolbeau <romain@dolbeau.org>
- Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, PowerPC List Debian <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>, jjhdiederen <jjhdiederen@zonnet.nl>
- Subject: Re: PPC64: G5 & 4k/64k page size (was: Re: Call for report - G5/PPC970 status)
- From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
- Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 22:56:12 +0200
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Hi,
On Fri, 2019-12-13 at 08:47 +0100, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> Le jeu. 12 déc. 2019 à 22:40, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> a écrit :
> > I'm using 4K pages, in case that matters
>
> Yes it does matter, as it seems to be the difference between "working"
> and "not working" :-)
> Thank you for the config & pointing out the culprit!
>
> With your config, my machine boots (though it's missing some features
> as the config seems quite tuned).
>
> Moving from 64k pages to 4k pages on 'my' config (essentially,
> Debian's 5.3 with default values for changes since), my machine boots
> as well & everything seems to work fine.
Just as a heads-up: Starting with kernel 6.10, Debian has now separate kernel
packages for 4k and 64k page support for both ppc64 and ppc64el [1].
So, anyone who has run into this issue in the past has a chance to try again
with kernel 6.10.
Thanks,
Adrian
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/blob/master/debian/changelog?ref_type=heads
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