Bug#815915: initramfs-tools-core: lsinitramfs causes zcat crash when Intel microcode is included in initrd

2016-02-25 Thread Ron Murray
Package: initramfs-tools-core Version: 0.123 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When using lsinitramfs to check the contents of an initrd: > root:~# lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-4.4.2 > /boot/initrd.img-4.4.2-curly-0 > kernel > kernel/x86 > kernel/x86/microcode > kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel

Bug#808953: xhci regression for large transfers (commit e210c422b)

2016-01-11 Thread Ron
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 02:14:58PM +0200, Mathias Nyman wrote: > On 08.01.2016 17:19, Ron wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 04:10:09PM +0200, Mathias Nyman wrote: > >>On 07.01.2016 20:47, Ron wrote: > >>>On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 03:09:20AM +1030, Ron wrote: > >&

Bug#808953: xhci regression for large transfers (commit e210c422b)

2016-01-08 Thread Ron
On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 04:10:09PM +0200, Mathias Nyman wrote: > On 07.01.2016 20:47, Ron wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 03:09:20AM +1030, Ron wrote: > >>On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 02:52:28AM +1030, Ron wrote: > >>>On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 05:38:09PM +0200,

Bug#808953: xhci regression for large transfers (commit e210c422b)

2016-01-07 Thread Ron
On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 02:52:28AM +1030, Ron wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 05:38:09PM +0200, Mathias Nyman wrote: > > Hi > > > > On 02.01.2016 08:32, Ron wrote: > > > > > >Hi, > > > > > >It appears the commit e210c422b6fdd2dc123bedc58

Bug#808953: xhci regression for large transfers (commit e210c422b)

2016-01-07 Thread Ron
On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 05:38:09PM +0200, Mathias Nyman wrote: > Hi > > On 02.01.2016 08:32, Ron wrote: > > > >Hi, > > > >It appears the commit e210c422b6fdd2dc123bedc588f399aefd8bf9de > >"xhci: don't finish a TD if we get a short transfer event mi

Bug#808953: xhci regression for large transfers (commit e210c422b)

2016-01-01 Thread Ron
should be able to reproduce it too. Ben has reverted this for the next uploads of the distro kernel now, until we figure out what is really wrong there and get a fix into the mainline. I can run more tests and dig into this deeper if the reason for it isn't immediately obvious in hindsight. Cheers, Ron

Bug#808953: linux: xhci regression in backported patch

2016-01-01 Thread Ron
On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 07:20:34PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: tag -1 moreinfo > > On Fri, 2015-12-25 at 04:26 +1030, Ron wrote: > > Source: linux > > Version: 3.16.7-ckt20-1 > > Severity: important > > > > Hi, > > > > While testing

Bug#808953: linux: xhci regression in backported patch

2015-12-24 Thread Ron
tween every transfer that occurs - so we should probably revert this unless someone who knows that code well can review a better backport of it to ensure there won't be unintended ill effects. Cheers, Ron

Bug#686636: Please backport virtio-scsi to wheezy

2014-07-25 Thread Ron
se it with the wheezy installer. Please consider adding this to virtio-modules for the wheezy branch to complete this (very welcome!) backport. Thanks! Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#743933: Please enable CONFIG_MTD_NAND_ECC_BCH

2014-04-08 Thread Ron
h the following change to the config, and it all then works as expected. Cheers, Ron --- /boot/config-3.2.0-4-amd64 2014-02-02 11:46:29.0 +1030 +++ .config 2014-04-08 22:45:10.0 +0930 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # # Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT. -# Linux/x86 3.2.54 Kerne

Please suggest, and furthere publicize, the debian-kernel-handbook.DEB

2012-06-24 Thread Ron Varburg
Am I right that the debian-kernel-handbook.deb is not suggested by related debs? Hardly mentioned in READMEs (the deb, not the URL)? Should be mentioned within the handbook? In addition, shouldn't a homepage URL be added to the description of debian-kernel-handbook.deb? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Bug#512266: linux-image-2.6.28-1-amd64: 2.6.28 - ext4 filesystem not enabled

2009-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
Package: linux-image-2.6.28-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.28-1~experimental.1~snapshot.12576 Severity: wishlist Now that ext4 is Official in 2.6.28, and knowing that people who run experimental kernels must accept some risk, $ lsmod | sort | grep ext[234] ext2 66704 0 ext3

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 George Danchev wrote: > On Saturday 05 August 2006 17:30, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> In linux.debian.kernel Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> I see that the lawyers of SuSE and Red Hat do not believe this to

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-04 Thread Ron Johnson
opinion of the debian-legal@ armchair lawyers. Could they have signed license agreements that we (not being executives of RHAT and Novell) don't know about? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to whi

Bug#339941: Yaird does not include needed bootup module (gdth.ko)

2005-11-19 Thread Ron Watkins
Package: linux-image-2.6.14-2.k7 Version: linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7 2.6.14-3 This version of the kernel appears to have switched to yaird to make initrds. It does not correctly detect and include the 'gdth.ko' kernel module on one of my servers. gdth.ko is the ICP Vortex family of SCSI control

Bug#286803: Kind of a memory leak in kernel 2.6?

2005-04-02 Thread Ron
vates it. I can win back some fairly large chunks of swap by restarting long running memory churners, spamd and mozilla seem to be particularly profitable in that respect, but essentially it means a 4 day reboot cycle on the machine with this problem. :( Is no one else seeing this? thanks, Ron

Bug#301603: kernel-source-2.6.11: AOL!

2005-03-29 Thread Ron Johnson
Package: kernel-source-2.6.11 Version: 2.6.11-1 Followup-For: Bug #301603 Even when I change y to n in .confif, CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX gets changed back to y. The problem seems to be line 400 of arch/i386/defconfig. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (5