Re: Use SMP kernel for Alpha (udeb) builds

On 12/13/18 09:08, Michael Cree wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 08:21:11AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 07:54:52AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote:
>>> On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 12:01:23PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 10:39:58PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>>>>> On 12/7/18 22:06, Michael Cree wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 05:38:51PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>>>>>>> As per [1] and our recent discussions the generic 4.x kernels seem to no
>>>>>>> longer work on Alpha machines which also renders any installer images using
>>>>>>> the generic 4.x kernels non-working.
>>>
>>> Bisection leads to:
>>>
>>> dca496451bddea9aa87b7510dc2eb413d1a19dfd is the first bad commit
>>
>> Actually I am not so sure about that.  It appears that sometimes a
>> bad kernel can boot which might have lead me astray.  That commit
>> after failing once (assuming I did not make a mistake in the
>> bisection) is now booting...
> 
> It would appear that I accidently marked one step in the
> bisection incorrectly but I have now identified the problem
> commit and it makes a lot more sense.  The first bad commit is
> 
> commit b38d08f3181c5025a7ce84646494cc4748492a3b
> Author: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
> Date:   Tue Sep 2 14:46:02 2014 -0400
> 
>      percpu: restructure locking
> 
> 
> The commit prior to that one boots reliably but this one fails to
> boot a generic kernel.  I'll report it to the linux kernel mail
> list.

That's great! Thanks for getting things forward.

Cheers,
Frank