On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:30:22 +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
> Since Linux v6.7, booting using BootX on an Old World PowerMac produces
> an early crash. Stan Johnson writes, "the symptoms are that the screen
> goes blank and the backlight stays on, and the system freezes (Linux
> doesn't boot)."
>
> Further testing revealed that the failure can be avoided by disabling
> CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT. Bisection revealed that the regression was caused by
> a change to the font bitmap pointer that's used when btext_init() begins
> painting characters on the display, early in the boot process.
>
> [...]
Applied to powerpc/fixes.
[1/1] powerpc: Add reloc_offset() to font bitmap pointer used for bootx_printf()
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/b94b73567561642323617155bf4ee24ef0d258fe
cheers
