Re: debian-hppa on a C8000

Hi Lothar,

On 18.03.19 20:39, Lothar Paltins wrote:
> Am 18.03.19 um 15:10 schrieb Helge Deller:
>> It should boot further than that.
>> Which palo version are you running?
>> Did you ran "palo -v" before reboot?
> 
> No, I didn't know, that this is necessary. After "palo -v" the system
> is booting now. Booting continues now with "Uncompressing ...". The
> old palo (1.95) seems to be unable to uncompress the kernel.

This "Uncompressing..." happens in the kernel itself, it's not part of palo.
I think the problem was, that the old palo had a bug which
couldn't cope with kernels bigger than a specific size (and other bugs).
Anyway, good to know that updating palo fixes the issue.

>> I pulled out any graphics card of this machine though.
> 
> And this seems to be necessary. It's still pure chance, whether the
> graphics card is working or not. It may even cause a crash during
> booting. Here's a boot log of a crash:
> 
> [   93.621614] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
> [   93.871832] radeon 0000:80:00.0: enabling SERR and PARITY (0107 -> 0147)
> [   94.010799] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RV350 0x1002:0x4154 0x1002:0x0002 0x80).
> [   94.179812] ipmi 16: Found new BMC (man_id: 0x00000b, prod_id: 0x8201, dev_id: 0x32)
> [   94.219177] [drm] GPU not posted. posting now...
> [   94.347007] ipmi 16: IPMI kcs interface initialized
> [   94.512299] radeon 0000:80:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode
> [   94.599144] radeon 0000:80:00.0: GTT: 512M 0x60000000 - 0x7FFFFFFF
> [   94.599165] [drm] Generation 2 PCI interface, using max accessible memory
> [   94.599179] radeon 0000:80:00.0: VRAM: 128M 0xFFFFFFFFC0000000 - 0xFFFFFFFFC7FFFFFF (128M used)
> [   94.599496] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=128M, BAR=128M
> [   94.599504] [drm] RAM width 128bits DDR
> [   94.603570] [TTM] Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 8218164 kiB
> [   94.603578] [TTM] Zone   dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB
> [[   94.603584] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator
> [   94.887738] [drm] radeon: 128M of VRAM memory ready
>   OK     94.887756] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
> m] Found device    94.888008] [drm] radeon: 1 quad pipes, 1 Z pipes initialized
> ;1;39m82540EM Gi[   94.923120] radeon 0000:80:00.0: WB disabled
> gabit Ethernet C[   94.923159] radeon 0000:80:00.0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x0000000060000000 and cpu addr 0x000000002cdcd946
> 
> ontroller.
> [   94.930972] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
> [   95.807136] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
> [   95.807402] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
> [   95.807548] [drm] Loading R300 Microcode
> [   95.835137] radeon 0000:80:00.0: firmware: failed to load radeon/R300_cp.bin (-2)
> [   95.835160] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
> [   95.835172] radeon 0000:80:00.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/R300_cp.bin failed with error -2
> [   95.835558] [drm:r100_cp_init [radeon]] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
> [   95.835581] radeon 0000:80:00.0: failed initializing CP (-2).
> [   96.503094] radeon 0000:80:00.0: Disabling GPU acceleration
> [   96.504398] [drm] radeon: cp finalized
> [   96.531896] [drm] radeon: cp finalized
> [   96.683535] [TTM] Finalizing pool allocator
> [   96.735229] [TTM] Zone  kernel: Used memory at exit: 0 kiB
> [   96.735229] [TTM] Zone   dma32: Used memory at exit: 0 kiB
> [   96.735229] [drm] radeon: ttm finalized
> [   96.735229] [drm] Forcing AGP to PCI mode
> [   96.793669] [drm] Generation 2 PCI interface, using max accessible memory
> [   97.099110] radeon 0000:80:00.0: VRAM: 128M 0xFFFFFFFFC0000000 - 0xFFFFFFFFC7FFFFFF (128M used)
> [   97.099121] radeon 0000:80:00.0: GTT: 512M 0xFFFFFFFFA0000000 - 0xFFFFFFFFBFFFFFFF
> [   97.099142] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=128M, BAR=128M
> [   97.099149] [drm] RAM width 128bits DDR
> [   97.203340] [TTM] Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 8218164 kiB
> [   97.203349] [TTM] Zone   dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB
> [   97.203356] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator
> [   97.203554] [drm] radeon: 128M of VRAM memory ready
> [   97.203563] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
> [   97.203683] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
> [   97.396449] [drm] radeon: 1 quad pipes, 1 Z pipes initialized
> [   97.396472] [drm] PCI GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x0000000043D00000).
> [   97.396631] radeon 0000:80:00.0: WB enabled
> [   97.396652] radeon 0000:80:00.0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0xffffffffa0000000 and cpu addr 0x00000000e3b927cf
> [   97.396665] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
> [   97.396671] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
> [   97.396753] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
> [   97.396763] [drm] Loading R300 Microcode
> [   97.396855] radeo
> 
> At this point it crashed with a blinking red LED.
> 
> But even if the graphics card works, it's almost unusable now. The
> previous version with KDE4 worked reasonable fast, but the new Plasma
> desktop is incredibly slow. Even the simple systemsettings5
> application uses about 100% CPU time and everything reacts extremely
> slow on keyboard and mouse events.

Ok, that needs more analyzing.
Hard to say from here what's wrong.
I can try to debug further when I found time at some point.
Helge