Re: Please validate test kernel on UltraSPARC machines

[Gregor Riepl <onitake@gmail.com>]

> Only 6.12.38+1-sparc64-smp kernel package above was meant for testing, please
> ignore anything else. The other kernels are not expected to work.
>
> > [   69.870700] crc32c_sparc64: sparc64 crc32c opcode not available.
> > [   70.039974] ------------[ ftrace bug ]------------
> > [   70.109487] ftrace faulted on unknown error
> > [   71.943961] alg: No test for crc3<3rc32c-generic)
> > [   72.203198] crc32c_sparc64: sparc64 crc32c opcode not available.
> > [   72.409685] EXT4-fs (dm-1): Cannot load crc32c driver.
> >
> > [   71.936087] alg: No test for crc3<3� (crc32c-generic)
> > [   72.261971] EXT4-fs (dm-1): Cannot load crc32c driver.
>
> And does it finish booting?

No, unfortunately not.
In both cases, I get the following at the end:

> mount: mounting /dev/mapper/xyz-root on /root failed: No such file or directory
> Failed to mount /dev/mapper/xyz-root as root file system.

But that would match my expectations, since it can't initialize the ext4 driver due to missing crc32 routines.

The output looks a bit suspicious:

> > [   71.943961] alg: No test for crc3<3rc32c-generic)
> >
> > [   71.936087] alg: No test for crc3<3� (crc32c-generic)

Maybe there's an uninitialized string or incorrect formatting here?