[Macchiato] success (first boot)

[Marc Zyngier]

On 23/01/18 23:15, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 23 January 2018 at 23:12, Steve McIntyre <steve at einval.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 11:07:53PM +0000, Matthew Bentham wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Thanks. I've got it showing a Linux terminal using an old Radeon 5570 now :-)
>>>
>>> My problem now is that the network device driver is causing a kernel panic when
>>> doing "apt install task-gnome-desktop". I get a lot of warning messages first
>>> along the lines of "detected wrong cpu at end of Tx processing".
>>
>> Aha! Not just me then! I've been seeing the same 2 things for a while,
>> but Leif and Stuart have not.
>>
>> I was wondering if it's memory corruption in the driver, but I've not
>> had much chance to dig into it yet.
>>
> 
> I think this may be a known issue. Marc?

I fixed something along those lines[1]. But this driver is being
randomly changed and almost never tested in a production environment, so
it it breaks on almost every single effin' change.

4.14 should have the fix though... If it still breaks, I'll dust off the
board and give it a spin.

	M.

[1]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c?id=13c249a94f525fe4c757d28854049780b25605c4
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