> There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some > other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, > similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* just > like a normal jessie release, but with a few key updates: > > * backports kernel > * rebuilt d-i to match that kernel > * X drivers > * ... (other things that might be needed for consistency) > > all rolled up with a small installer image build (netinst, maybe DVD#1). > > A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners > of very recent amd64 machines too, with better support for things on > the Skylake platform. Those are the only two architectures I'm > thinking of supporting at this point. > > Is anybody else interested in helping? Thoughts/comments?
I think it would benefit more than Skylake users. The last few processors are missing support. Below is from a Core i5-5300U (5th gen) and a 3.19.0-64-generic kernel. ********** $ dmesg | egrep -i '(error|failed)' ... [35679.953137] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged [35980.749723] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged [36280.594838] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged [36580.439940] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged [37029.202190] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged [37179.118743] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged [37629.831878] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged [37779.748453] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged [38229.510127] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged $ sudo mcelog mcelog: Family 6 Model 3d CPU: only decoding architectural errors
