Bug#868887: POWER9 : random segvs and illegal instructions

2017-07-19 Thread Frederic Bonnard
Source: linux Source-Version: 4.9.30-2+deb9u1 Severity: important Tags: patch -- Hi, I'm forwarding the attached patch for POWER9 (dd2.00 hardware), that it would be nice to have in Stretch. As explained in it : " On POWER9 the ERAT may be incorrect on wakeup from some stop states that lose stat

Bug#860900: AST device driver better support on Power

2017-04-21 Thread Frederic Bonnard
Source: linux Source-Version: 4.9.18-1 Tags: patch -- Hi, many Power (especially P9) machines use AST graphic cards. There were many improvements and bug fixes recently on this side and it would be nice to have those in futur 4.9.x Stretch kernels. Some of those patches have already been taken in

Re: Stretch and Power9 support

2017-04-13 Thread Frederic Bonnard
Thanks Ben, that really helps. I'm going to check more about intrusiveness of the patch sets. Regards, F. > > Hi, > > several patch sets have been pushed upstream linux (few did not reach it > > yet) concerning additional Power9 support (next 4.11 should support P9 > > pretty well). > > Several o

Stretch and Power9 support

2017-04-12 Thread Frederic Bonnard
Hi, several patch sets have been pushed upstream linux (few did not reach it yet) concerning additional Power9 support (next 4.11 should support P9 pretty well). Several of these sets were cherrypicked by Canonical into Zesty Zapus (4.10.0 kernel). I understand stretch is going to have linux kern

Bug#858619: -dbg package for ppc64el

2017-03-24 Thread Frederic Bonnard
Source: linux Source-Version: 4.10-1~exp1 Tags: patch -- Hi, what is the policy for having a -dbg package for linux-image packages ? Some architecture have one, some others don't. Would it be possible that ppc64el have one, please ? :) Ideally having it in unstable would be nice, but because of t

Bug#833861: /dev/ipmi* missing on ppc64*

2016-08-09 Thread Frederic Bonnard
Package: linux Version: 4.6.4-1 Tags: patch -- Hi, when trying to use ipmitool locally on a ppc64el host, I get this : --- debian@abanc:~$ ipmitool lan print 1 Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory --- I saw that ipmi_powernv module is n

Bug#761656: linux: 3.16.2-3 misses some patches for hypervisor enablement

2014-09-15 Thread Frederic Bonnard
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.2-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: debian-powe...@lists.debian.org Usertags: ppc64el Dear Maintainer, the current KVM patches added for powerpc are missing a few ones to be able to run qemu guests. It needs : 1287cb3fa85c KVM: PPC: Book3S: Move vcore definiti