Re: Boot regression in Linux v6.4-rc3

[Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@xxxxxx>]

Hi again,

On 28.05.23 09:30, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> [...]
> Thanks, that patch (as -patch4 on top of v6.4-rc3) fixes the boot 
> regression for me on the rx2620:
>
> [...]
>
> Great! I'll give it a try on my rx2800-i2, too, but assume it wil work 
> there, too.

Indeed, -patch4 also makes it work on the rx2800-i2:

```
ELILO v3.16 for EFI/IA-64
..
Uncompressing Linux... done
Loading file AC10027B.initrd.img...done
[    0.000000] Linux version 
6.4.0-rc3-44c026a73be8038f03dbdeef028b642880cf1511-patch4 (root@x4270) 
(ia64-linux-gcc (GCC) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.39) #1 SMP Sun May 
28 09:08:44 CEST 2023
[    0.000000] efi: EFI v2.1 by HP
[    0.000000] efi: SALsystab=0xdfdd63a18 ESI=0xdfdd63f18 ACPI 
2.0=0x3d3c4014 HCDP=0xdffff8798 SMBIOS=0x3d368000
[    0.000000] PCDP: v3 at 0xdffff8798
[    0.000000] earlycon: uart8250 at I/O port 0x4000 (options '115200n8')
[    0.000000] printk: bootconsole [uart8250] enabled
[    0.000000] ACPI: Early table checksum verification disabled
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 0x000000003D3C4014 000024 (v02 HP    )
[    0.000000] ACPI: XSDT 0x000000003D3C4580 000124 (v01 HP     RX2800-2 
00000001      01000013)
[...]
[   36.649531] Run /init as init process
Loading, please wait...
Starting systemd-udevd version 252.6-1
[   36.865635] pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered
[   36.869321] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 
Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@xxxxxxxx>
[   36.885025] PTP clock support registered
[   36.910852] ACPI: bus type USB registered
[   36.918198] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[   36.924762] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[   36.922133] igb: Intel(R) Gigabit Ethernet Network Driver
[   36.931386] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[   36.938149] igb: Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Intel Corporation.
[...]
[  OK  ] Finished apt-daily-upgrade… apt upgrade and clean activities.

Debian GNU/Linux 12 rx2800-i2 -

rx2800-i2 login:
```

I'll try to test this on other machines (rx4640 w/Madison, rx2660 
w/Montecito/Montvale, rx6600 w/Montvale) as well, starting on Tuesday if 
possible.

****

There is an issue - only for the rx2800-i2 - seemingly related to it's 
PCIe NIC(s) and MSIs, but this is already there in 6.3.x (see first part 
of [1]) and **not related to the problem of this thread (AFAICT)** and - 
more important - doesn't affect operation: The machine is working 
diskless using one of those interfaces so it can't be that bad. I'll 
look into bisecting that issue as well.

[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2023/05/msg00010.html

Cheers,
Frank