[Lenny400] [Letux-kernel] CI20: how to boot upstream kernel?

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi all,

> Am 13.05.2019 um 18:14 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns at goldelico.com>:
> 
> Hi Mathieu,
> 
>> Am 10.05.2019 um 08:08 schrieb Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org>:
>> 
>>> 
>>> The 4.19 kernel is stuck with
>>> 
>>> [    0.968637] Waiting for root device /dev/mmcblk0p1...
>>> 
>>> although the mmc driver is loaded:
>>> 
>>> [    0.760598] jz4740-mmc 13460000.mmc: JZ SD/MMC card driver registered
>>> [    0.767091] jz4740-mmc 13460000.mmc: Using DMA, 4-bit mode
>>> 
>>> Before I start a bisect to find which patch between 4.19 and 5.0 made it
>>> work, I better ask the CI20 specialists here first...
>> 
>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mmc/list/?submitter=179601
> 
> Thanks for pointing to this patch set!
> 
> Unless I have missed something, all patches except the first one have been
> backported to stable v4.19.40 so they should be effective. And the first one
> doesn't seem to improve anything in my tests.
> 
> I have tried to git bisect and manual bisect and git log arch/mips/ingenic
> but didn't find something in the jz47xx code or CI20 drivers that is obviously
> related.
> 
> What I also tried is to cherry-pick the jz4780 dma changes introduced by
> 4.20 - but also no success.  So it might be a side-effect of some other driver.
> 
> Current status of my tests is that
> v4.20-rc2	boots to login:
> v4.20-rc1	kernel panics with page faults and strange things
> v4.19.0		fails with "waiting for root device"
> same for v4.18 and v4.14
> 
> Unfortunately, these kernel panics make it difficult to git bisect between
> v4.19 and v4.20-rc2.
> 
> It also does not seem to make a difference if I use the ci20_defconfig
> or my own (otherwise I could simply bisect the diff between both defconfigs).

I did repeat some tests and found a bug in my script that copies the newly
compiled kernel to the SD card. This sometimes missed something which went
unnoticed. Therefore the test results were not reliable.

With the fixed build process, the tree from kernel.org or the letux source tree
works with a minimally patched ci20_defconfig. Only the full letux_defconfig
makes 4.19 kernels fail to find the root device, while 4.20 and later kernels work. 

So this means I have to find out which config is in conflict and either disable
it or find the driver enabled by it.

BR,
Nikolaus