Re: Kernel 6.9 fails to boot with "can't boot dump kernel from OF"

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> On Jul 7, 2024, at 6:10 PM, Reimar Döffinger <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 6 Jul 2024, at 18:18, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi Reimar,
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>>>> On Jul 6, 2024, at 5:45 PM, Reimar Döffinger <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>> Could you verify that this change actually fixes the problem? This would save me some work.
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>>> I checked the kernel source, the error message is under a if (PHYSICAL_START > 0), so that I am quite certain is the issue.
>>> Actually testing means compiling the kernel, which will take quite some while.
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>> You should cross-compile the test kernel, of course.
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>> I‘m not expecting you to build the kernel on your 32-bit PowerPC machine, that would take ages.
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> Setting up cross-compilation takes my time, compiling locally only the computer's, thus I am sticking to the latter...

Setting up cross-compilation involves downloading the tarball for your host-target combination, extracting it and adding the path to the binaries to your PATH variable.

It’s extremely easy to cross-compile a kernel these days.

Adrian
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