On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 23:38 +0100, Tony Vroon wrote:
On 30/08/14 22:56, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
This is weird. The above means it crashed very early, such as in prom_init. I fail to see how the above commit can possibly relate to that in any way...
I was dubious as well, but this git bisection process is held up as the one and only truth in kernel troubleshooting and I followed it to the letter.
Have you verified that reverting it actually helps ?
I just tried it on a clean tree and indeed, it did not help as you expected.
So, Alex, sorry to waste your time.
Ben, other ideas?
I'll have to experiment on my own G5's next week
Cheers, Ben.