Bug 1554954 - No serial console output on aarch64 with kernel-4.16.0-0.rc5.git0.1.fc28
Summary: No serial console output on aarch64 with kernel-4.16.0-0.rc5.git0.1.fc28
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 28
Hardware: aarch64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: ARMTracker
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Reported: 2018-03-13 16:07 UTC by Paul Whalen
Modified: 2018-03-30 12:58 UTC (History)
21 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kernel-4.16.0-0.rc5.git0.2.fc28
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Last Closed: 2018-03-30 12:58:50 UTC
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Description Paul Whalen 2018-03-13 16:07:28 UTC
Description of problem:
Testing kernel-4.16.0-0.rc5.git0.1.fc28 on aarch64 there is no serial console output after the initial EFI messages. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-4.16.0-0.rc5.git0.1.fc28

How reproducible:
Everytime, all hardware tested is affected including - Mustang, Seattle, Pine 64 and Raspberry Pi 3. 

Additional info:
Kernel 4.16.0-0.rc4.git3.1.fc29.aarch64 boots as expected on the Mustang and Seattle.

Comment 1 Jeremy Cline 2018-03-13 16:58:07 UTC
Hi Paul,

Can you test https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=25687089 when it's done? It reverts commit e21da1c992007594d391e7b301779cf30f438691.

Thanks!

Comment 2 Paul Whalen 2018-03-13 19:38:11 UTC
(In reply to Jeremy Cline from comment #1)
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Can you test https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=25687089
> when it's done? It reverts commit e21da1c992007594d391e7b301779cf30f438691.
> 
> Thanks!

Unfortunately, no change with that kernel.

EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
EFI stub: EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL unavailable, no randomness supplied
EFI stub: Using DTB from configuration table
EFI stub: Exiting boot services and installing virtual address map...

Adding earlycon gives the following output on the mustang: 

EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
EFI stub: EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL unavailable, no randomness supplied
EFI stub: Using DTB from configuration table
EFI stub: Exiting boot services and installing virtual address map...
L3C: 8MB
[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x500f0000]
[    0.000000] Linux version 4.16.0-0.rc5.git0.2.fc28.aarch64 (mockbuild.fedoraproject.org) (gcc version 8.0.1 20180222 (Red Hat 8.0.1-0.16) (GCC)) #1 SMP Tue Mar 13 17:03:06 UTC 2018
[    0.000000] Machine model: APM X-Gene Mustang board
[    0.000000] earlycon: uart0 at MMIO32 0x000000001c020000 (options '')
[    0.000000] bootconsole [uart0] enabled
[    0.000000] debug: skip boot console de-registration.
[    0.000000] efi: Getting EFI parameters from FDT:
[    0.000000] efi: EFI v2.40 by X-Gene Mustang Board EFI Oct 17 2016 13:54:05
[    0.000000] efi:  ACPI=0x43fa700000  ACPI 2.0=0x43fa700014  SMBIOS 3.0=0x43fa9db000  ESRT=0x43ff006d18 
[    0.000000] esrt: Reserving ESRT space from 0x00000043ff006d18 to 0x00000043ff006d78.
[    0.000000] cma: Reserved 64 MiB at 0x00000040fc000000
[    0.000000] NUMA: No NUMA configuration found
[    0.000000] NUMA: Faking a node at [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x00000043ffffffff]
[    0.000000] NUMA: NODE_DATA [mem 0x43fff85500-0x43fff92fff]
[    0.000000] Zone ranges:
[    0.000000]   DMA32    [mem 0x0000004000000000-0x00000040ffffffff]
[    0.000000]   Normal   [mem 0x0000004100000000-0x00000043ffffffff]
[    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x0000004000000000-0x00000040001fffff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x0000004000200000-0x00000043fa59ffff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000043fa5a0000-0x00000043fa5cffff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000043fa5d0000-0x00000043fa5ddfff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000043fa5de000-0x00000043fa60ffff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000043fa610000-0x00000043fa6affff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000043fa6b0000-0x00000043fa6bffff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000043fa6c0000-0x00000043fa70ffff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000043fa710000-0x00000043fa9cffff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000043fa9d0000-0x00000043fa9d9fff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000043fa9da000-0x00000043fa9dbfff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000043fa9dc000-0x00000043ff99ffff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000043ff9a0000-0x00000043ff9affff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000043ff9b0000-0x00000043ff9bffff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000043ff9c0000-0x00000043ff9effff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000043ff9f0000-0x00000043ffffffff]
[    0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000004000000000-0x00000043ffffffff]

Comment 3 Laura Abbott 2018-03-14 03:46:06 UTC
Should be fixed by https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152098099822627&w=2, putting the patch in rawhide for tomorrow's build

Comment 4 Dusty Mabe 2018-03-14 12:50:11 UTC
Thanks Laura/Jeremy for the quick turnaround!

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2018-03-15 16:53:12 UTC
kernel-4.16.0-0.rc5.git0.2.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-08eb47b9da

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2018-03-16 14:45:43 UTC
kernel-4.16.0-0.rc5.git0.2.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-08eb47b9da

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2018-03-30 12:58:50 UTC
kernel-4.16.0-0.rc5.git0.2.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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