RPi2 snapshot for armv7 won't boot.

Michal Meloun melounmichal at gmail.com
Fri Nov 3 16:21:36 UTC 2017



On 02.11.2017 17:35, Kyle Evans wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com
> <mailto:imp at bsdimp.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 11:28 PM, Michal Meloun
>     <melounmichal at gmail.com <mailto: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
>     <mailto:markmi at dsl-only.net>> wrote:
>     > >
>     > > On 2017-Nov-1, at 3:51 PM, Carl Johnson <carlj at peak.org
>     <mailto: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
>     <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. 

I just committed this, so current after r325364 should be again usable.
Michal


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