Re: Regression in 4.11 - PowerPC crashes on boot, bisected to commit 5657933dbb6e

From: Bart Van Assche
Date: Wed Mar 01 2017 - 23:11:50 EST


On Wed, 2017-03-01 at 21:26 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> My Powerbook G4 Aluminum generates a fatal splat early in the boot process, just
> after identifying the driver for the disk. Unfortunately, it turns off almost
> immediately, thus I cannot report the message. After this bug has been
> triggered, the system clock has been reset to Dec. 31, 1969. I assume this is a
> side effect of an uncontrolled DMA operation.
>
> This problem has been bisected to commit 5657933dbb6e ("treewide: Move dma_ops
> from struct dev_archdata into struct device").

Can you provide the kernel .config of that G4?

Thanks,

Bart.