RPi2 snapshot for armv7 won't boot.

[Kyle Evans]

On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 11:28 PM, Michal Meloun <melounmichal at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 02.11.2017 2:53, Kyle Evans wrote:
> > > On Nov 1, 2017 6:24 PM, "Mark Millard" <markmi at dsl-only.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 2017-Nov-1, at 3:51 PM, Carl Johnson <carlj at peak.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I had previously tried to upgrade my RPi2 12.0-CURRENT system from
> armv6
> > >> to armv7, but it then refused to boot.  This time I downloaded the
> > >> latest snapshot (r325156 from 20171030) and it also refuses to boot
> for
> > >> exactly the same reason.  In every case the kernel loads, but then it
> > >> reports that init has died, and then panics and drops into kdb.  It
> > >> gives a stack backtrace, but that doesn't mean anything to me.
> > >>
> > >> Is this just me, or is anybody else having this problem?  If others
> have
> > >> the problem, is there some workaround to get it working?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks in advance for any ideas.
> > >
> > > Others are also seeing the problem, not just on
> > > RPI2's.
> > >
> > > It looks like it broke between:
> > >
> > > -r324743 and -r325156
> > >
> > > someplace relative to whatever is causing the
> > > init problem.
> > >
> > > Details that lead me to that conclusion, if
> > > you care. . .
> > >
> >
> > The r324938 breaks all statically linked binaries (init, /rescue/*, ...).
> > I have prepared patch, but I need a day or two for more testing on other
> > arches.
> > https://github.com/strejda/tegra/commit/67ea3325c50770b5031ef02882b2dc
> > cdd1f7611f
> >
> > Michal
>
>
> To be extra sure, have we tried to back out this one change against the tip
> of -head to confirm? It's pretty trivial.
>
> Warner
>
>
For what it's worth: I didn't try backing out the change, but I can confirm
that the above-mentioned patch does fix it -- I applied it just a bit ago.