[OE-core] [PATCH 0/7] kernel-yocto: conslidated pull request

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 09/01/2017 12:08 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 15:30 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> Now that 4.12 + headers are in the tree, this is the next (and
>> possibly final)
>> around of -stable updates for the active kernels.
>>
>> I've built and booted them on all four architectures. But as usual,
>> this is a lot of combinations to confirm.
>>
>> The 4.12 update doesn't specifically address the kernel traces that
>> RP has been seeing, but it also doesn't regress things here. I'd be
>> interested to know if they help/hinder in the search to find the root
>> cause.
>>
>> I'll of course continue to track it down myself.
>>
>> I also have some functionality fixes as well as configuration updates
>> as part of this update.
> 
> I ran these on the autobuilder. We did see:
> 
> https://autobuilder.yocto.io/builders/nightly-ppc/builds/465
> 
> which is the latest 4.12 kernel and the latest qemu hanging with no
> boot output (but the pid did appear).
> 
> So we're still seeing something odd with ppc occasionally. Why? Don't
> know :(

The only thing crappier than IDE support, is the PPC platforms that
qemu supports for system emulation.

I'll continue to try and track down the issues.

Bruce

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
>