Hi, On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 9:11 AM Christian Zigotzky <chzigot...@xenosoft.de> wrote: > > Hi All, > > make oldconfig has asked because of the CPU family. I choosed GENERIC for my > P.A. Semi PWRficient PA6T-1682M. Is this correct? Maybe this is the problem. > > config GENERIC_CPU > - bool "Generic (POWER4 and above)" > + bool "Generic (POWER5 and PowerPC 970 and above)" > depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64 && !CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN > select PPC_64S_HASH_MMU > > There isn’t a POWER4 anymore and I used it via CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU=y before. > > Before the first PowerPC updates: > CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU=y > # CONFIG_POWER5_CPU is not set > > Link: > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
I think the mistake here is that there are two GENERIC_CPUs now, and one of them is the wrong one and overrides settings. I'm surprised Kconfig didn't balk at it. I have a vague memory that PA6T had a little-endian mode, but it was never used much and I wouldn't expect it to work. -Olof