Gentoo Archives: gentoo-sparc

From: Alex McWhirter <alexmcwhirter@×××××××.us>
To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] Official SPARC64 Port
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:53:24
Message-Id: 56C4F9AA.7080701@triadic.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-sparc] Official SPARC64 Port by Mike Frysinger
1 On 02/17/2016 05:46 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On 17 Feb 2016 17:11, Alex McWhirter wrote:
3 >> On 02/14/2016 09:13 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
4 >>> On 14 Feb 2016 18:44, Alex McWhirter wrote:
5 >>>> Using vanilla kernels, 3.18.26 is the last kernel that seems to work.
6 >>>> 4.1.17 introduces the issue. Is this something worth bringing up on the
7 >>>> sparc kernel mailing list? I'm currently scouring through a 4.1.17 /
8 >>>> 3.18.26 diff which is so large it's hard to get anywhere.
9 >>> erm, there are kernel versions inbetween those. can you not try 3.19,
10 >>> 4.0, or 4.1 from kernel.org ?
11 >> Well after a few days of building kernels (each one takes about 5 hours
12 >> on this box :/)...
13 >>
14 >> 3.18.26 - Works
15 >> 3.19.0 - Dead
16 >>
17 >> So it looks like 3.19.0 added the issue.
18 > feel like bisecting it further ? you can clone:
19 > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
20 >
21 > and then run:
22 > $ git bisect start v3.19 v3.18
23 >
24 > and then try building/booting each combo it comes up with. if it fails,
25 > run `git bisect bad`. if it passes, run `git bisect good`. if it does
26 > not compile (sometimes that happens), you can use `git bisect skip`.
27 > -mike
28
29 Well one way or another someone has to do it right?
30
31 Time to get back to the lonely world of constantly compiling kernels...

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Re: [gentoo-sparc] Official SPARC64 Port Alex McWhirter <alexmcwhirter@×××××××.us>