armv7 boot regression on v4.14-rc1

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 20 October 2017 at 17:42, Matthias Brugger <mbrugger at suse.com> wrote:
> Hi Ard,
>
> Today I realized that the Mediatek based Bananapi-R2 [1] stopped booting
> somewhere between v4.13 and v4.14-rc1. Serial console is just quiet, not even
> earlycon is working.
>
> I bisect the issue and got pointed to:
> e4bae4d0b5f3 ("arm/efi: Split zImage code and data into separate PE/COFF sections")
>
> After reverting the patch, I was able to boot.
>
> Any clue what went wrong here?
>
> I added Sean, maybe he has an idea if this is a FW issue. Also I doubt the board
> uses EFI.
>

Hello Matthias,

You are probably being bitten by a known issue:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=150488477807353

The maintainer is dragging his feet a bit, and I am not sure why. But
we should be able to resolve this shortly

Thanks,
Ard.