[Macchiato] success (first boot)

[Marcin Wojtas]

+Antoine

Hi Marc,

2018-01-24 10:25 GMT+01:00 Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>:
> 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
> --

I saw your patch is already a part of v4.14... Two days ago similar
bug report was sent to the lists and I Antoine said it will be
investigated.

Best regards,
Marcin