Re: Newer kernels fail to boot on a U450?

[Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de>]

Hi Adrian,

On 24.02.21 13:04, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Mark!
>
> On 2/24/21 12:14 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> > Do people still run newer kernels on older hardware? If there is interest,
> > I may be able to get some more diagnostic information. In particular I'd be
> > curious to know if Oracle do any routine testing of newer kernels on machines
> > such as the U450 and whether anyone there can reproduce the problem.
>
> I think this must be an issue specific to this machine or this model as I haven't
> seen such issues myself when testing on older machines.
>
> There is a stability issue on newer kernels on older hardware that is currently
> being debugged though [1].

Didn't know of that thread. I wonder if this could be the reason for the
crashes on my v480 and v490, though they happened already during kernel
boot.

> Adrian
>
> > [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-sparc&m=161399891728083&w=2

Cheers,
Frank