linux-goldfish - 3.4.0-1.11 testing

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 05:17:40PM -0200, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo
> <ricardo.salveti at canonical.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >> I've tried  linux-goldfish - 3.4.0-1.11 from the c-k-t/ppa both using
> >> kernel only with existing android images, or rebuilding goldfish
> >> build.
> >>
> >> Both times i'm seeing crashes at boot in the kernel messages:
> >> http://paste.ubuntu.com/6856884/
> >>
> >> I didn't see these when applying config patches and compiling with gcc
> >> 4.6 without memset patches.
> >>
> >> Other than that the emulator does boot and work. Maybe I somehow ended
> >> up with a mismatch of kernel/modules or something like that?
> >
> > I can also confirm that this is indeed happening with 1.11. Might be
> > an issue with 4.8, will give it a try with 4.7 to see.
> 
> Had the same issue with 4.7, so it seems we still need to use 4.6 for
> armhf. Looking at the original Android kernel binaries, they used 4.6
> for armhf and 4.7 for x86.
> 
> So guess the ideal would be to revert back the build and force 4.6 for
> at least armhf. Should know if 4.8 is enough for x86 soon.

That is a little confusing given all of the other 3.4 kernels moved to
4.7/8 without issue once you added the memset patches, why is this one
any different.

Anyhow let us know what you want done once you have tested the x86 side.

-apw