Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> writes: > >> From e60db83ffff23c57ec5c44de7c99cee8e4e353ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> >> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 20:34:25 -0800 >> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add linux-libre-4.2.5 >> >> This older version of linux-libre is being added because it was found >> that newer versions (or at least 4.3.3) of linux-libre were not reading >> the hardware clock on (at least Libreboot-enabled) Thinkpad x200 >> machines. >> >> * gnu/linux.scm (linux-libre-4.2.5): New variable. > > I would say that the variable should be named 'linux-libre-4.2', which > would always be bound to the latest 4.2.x. However, there's another > problem: the 4.2 branch is no longer supported upstream, so it will no > longer receive security updates and other important fixes. > > I suggest that we instead add linux-libre-4.1, which is still supported > upstream and is designated as an LTS branch. Would that be okay?
If it works for Christopher, that’s a good idea. > Another issue is that the kernel config for 4.3 is being used here. I > guess maybe that's working well enough in this case, but really our > kernel packages should be refactored somewhat to make this nicer. Yeah, though that’s probably beyond the scope of this particular issue. > One more thing: Francis Rowe told me that the coreboot developers have > determined that this is a bug on their side, and libreboot will > cherry-pick the fix soon, if it hasn't already. Interesting. Any links to the bug report or commit? Thanks for your feedback! Ludo’.
