Re: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup with most recent sparc64 installer

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi!

On 4/24/20 3:33 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> This looks like a kernel bug but regardless I see a lockup when I
> attempt to do certain operations :

There are kernel problems starting from around 5.x with older machines on
sparc64, the 4.19 is the last known working kernel on the old machines.

Newer machines such as T2 and newer run 5.x kernels without issues.

See this thread [1].

You can use an older installation image for the time being.

Adrian

> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2020/03/msg00026.html

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