[Voyage-linux] Fwd: APU-2

Kim-man 'Punky' TSE (spam-protected)
Tue Oct 4 09:24:17 HKT 2016


Hi Jordi,

In the next freeze, you may install stock debian jessie backport kernel to check.

Regards,
Punky

On 10/4/2016 12:04 AM, Jordi Ferrer Plana wrote:
> In the next freeze I'll check if that is my case. The last weekend I let the system up and running doing nothing and I 
> found it frozen after
> 12 hours.
> Actually, I'm now running the standard voyage kernel 4.1.6 without the gpio/leds patch and without the kernel 
> parameter for sdhci debug_quirks
> (debug_quirks = 0) in order to find:
>
> 1. If this parameter solves these random freezes (which I don't think, because I'm using a mSATA disk and I think
> the sdhci is only a SD card driver).
>
> 2. The gpio/leds patch is the problem.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Peter Barton <pbarton at netprotec.com <mailto:pbarton at netprotec.com>> wrote:
>
>     In line with this conversation, There seems to be a problem with APU2 and mSATA with fsck during boot.  Here is
>     the initramfs/fsck log:
>
>     cat fsck.log
>     Log of fsck -C -a -V -t ext2 /dev/sda1
>     Mon Oct  3 14:11:54 2016
>
>     fsck from util-linux 2.25.2
>     fsck: error 2 (No such file or directory) while executing fsck.ext2 for /dev/sda1
>     fsck exited with status code 8
>
>     Mon Oct  3 14:11:54 2016
>     ----------------
>
>     Any ideas on why it does not work?
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Peter
>
>
>     On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <punkytse at voyage.hk <mailto:punkytse at voyage.hk>> wrote:
>
>
>         There has been problem for SD card controller.  Not sure if this is related:
>
>         Read: http://marc.info/?l=voyage-linux&m=147269708221871&w=2
>         <http://marc.info/?l=voyage-linux&m=147269708221871&w=2>
>
>         However, I don't have your problem using both mSATA and SD when using 4.1.6.
>
>         And thank you for your patch.  Will probably apply to later kernel > 4.1.6 (If I still have spare time). 
>          4.1.6 has been frozen for a few months and I am not going to update it.
>
>         Regards,
>         Punky
>
>         On 9/30/2016 10:25 PM, Jordi Ferrer wrote:
>
>             Hi,
>
>             I've been running voyage 0.9.5 & kernel 3.14.12 on PCEngines APU board for a long time
>             without any problem.
>             Last week I got my first APU-2 board and I migrated my system to it.
>             I experienced system freezings at the end of the boot process some times, and many
>             kernel (3.14.12) crashes during the reboot and halt,
>
>             ---
>             [  352.370331] INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU { 3} (t=60000 jiffies g=6765 c=6764 q=3054)
>             [  352.379509] sending NMI to all CPUs:
>             [  352.383105] NMI backtrace for cpu 3
>             [  352.386626] CPU: 3 PID: 5664 Comm: postdrop Not tainted 3.14.12-iGetech #1
>             [  352.393571] Hardware name: PC Engines apu2/apu2, BIOS 88a4f96 03/07/2016
>             [  352.400298] task: ffff8800d81020d0 ti: ffff8800d819c000 task.ti: ffff8800d819c000
>             [  352.407807] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811d863b>] [<ffffffff811d863b>] delay_tsc+0xf/0x4b
>             [  352.415532] RSP: 0018:ffff88011ed83ae0  EFLAGS: 00000807
>             ...
>
>             I updated my voyage 0.9.5 to kernel 4.1.6 version. Now there is NO crashes during reboot and halt
>             but I still have freezings at the end of the boot process few times.
>
>             Is it going to help migrating to voyage 0.10.0? does anyone have long experience using APU-2 and
>             any version of voyage linux and kernel?
>
>             PD: I'm running on a mSATA drive.
>
>             BTW: I've created a patch for the kernel 4.1.6 to use the 3 front LEDs on top of a GPIO driver (also included)
>             for the front LEDs and the front PUSH BUTTON, which replaces the existing LED driver in the 4.1.6 that, I
>             think, only
>             works for the 3 LEDs.
>
>
>
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