Re: Fixing Linux getrandom() in stable

2018-05-31 Thread peter green
I don't see any general solution that is both correct and easy. I don't think there is one. In an ideal world all our computers would have a trusted source of true randomness. In practice that is not the case. Older computers don't have a hardware random number generator at all and newer compu

Debian kernel packaging no longer accepts typical downstream version numbering.

2018-05-07 Thread peter green
Common practice for downstreams (whether complete derivatives or end users) is to version modified packages with a version number like 4.16.5-1+something1 Where "something" is the name of a project, the name of the person performing the modification etc. Unfortunately with 4.16.5-1 of the ker

issues with experimental kernels on imx6 based boards.

2014-12-21 Thread peter green
I have some imx6 based boards which work as autobuilders for raspbian. I use btrfs for efficient snapshotting and have had some issues (crashes, weird filesystem errors) which I suspect are down to btrfs. As such i've been frequently upgradeing the kernel to the latest versions from experimenta

Re: Proper way for vendors to build deb packages of kernels.

2014-12-05 Thread peter green
jared_doming...@dell.com wrote: What differences are there from Debian's kernel that preclude using DKMS? What do you mean by "does not generally integrate with Debian stuff? Well AIUI Debian kernel packages have * a corresponding headers package * Some kind of hook mechanism to integrate with

Proper way for vendors to build deb packages of kernels.

2014-12-05 Thread peter green
Currently the raspberry pi foundation build their kernel and firmware into the same package in a way that does not work with dkms or generally integrate with Debian stuff. I've recently been talking to shiftplusone (who works for them) about the possibility of improving this. Currently i'm awa

swp on armv8 (Was: Haskell on arm needs help)

2014-12-03 Thread peter green
Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 03.12.2014, 23:02 +0100 schrieb Joachim Breitner: Trying to use it, but ghc fails to install in the schroot, and using just dd-schroot-cmd, I cannot debug this. Does installing ghc work properly for you? $ dd-schroot-cmd -c ghc apt-get install g

Bug#762634: initramfs-tools: [armhf] mounting rootfs on USB disk fails / some USB host controller drivers missing in initramfs

2014-09-25 Thread peter green
Karsten Merker wrote: Browse online: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/base-installer.git/tree/debian/templates-arch Adding -arm@ and -boot@ for possible comments/insight. I suppose the reason for MODULES=dep being the default on arm* might be that some armel systems boot their kernel

Bug#746420: linux: FTBFS on armhf: sun4i-a10-a1000.dtb

2014-05-10 Thread peter green
Tags 746420 +pending Severity 746420 serious This is a FTBFS on a release architecture and hence serious. It has also been fixed in svn (not by me) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#717372: Any chance of getting wandboard quad support in debian armmp kernel?

2013-07-19 Thread peter green
Package: linux-image-3.10-1-armmp Severity: wishlist x-debbugs-cc: debian-...@lists.debian.org Recently a device tree was added to linux-next for the wandboard quad (very similar to the wandboard dual which debian already appears to be supplying a device tree for). https://git.kernel.org/cgi

Re: Dropping support for the smallest armel machines

2013-06-27 Thread peter green
Ben Hutchings wrote: The other option that has been suggested repeatedly is to put armel chroots on ARMv7 hardware. Unaligned accesses behave differently on v7, but they weren't consistent between different v5 implementations (http://www.heyrick.co.uk/armwiki/Unaligned_data_access) so I don't th

Re: Problem booting 3.8 with root on raid

2013-04-28 Thread peter green
Sorry there is no lvm involved just raid. I had a brainfart when writing the topic. peter green wrote: I decided to upgrade a machine to a 3.8 kernel. At the time the machine was running a mostly squeeze system. The machine failed to mount the root filesystem. At first I thought this was

Problem booting 3.8 with root on raid on lvm

2013-04-28 Thread peter green
I decided to upgrade a machine to a 3.8 kernel. At the time the machine was running a mostly squeeze system. The machine failed to mount the root filesystem. At first I thought this was related to the use of uuid for the root filesystem, so I changed that to directly specifying /dev/md0 and it

Bug#679449: shared memory problem on armel

2013-02-07 Thread peter green
gregor herrmann wrote: On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:48:24 +, peter green wrote: Can this test be expressed in some easy terms to be used in debian/rules? DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE ?=$(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) ARM_VERSION_NUMBER :=$(shell $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)-cpp -dM /dev

Bug#679449: shared memory problem on armel

2013-02-07 Thread peter green
gregor herrmann wrote: As armhf really describes the ABI rather than the underlying CPU architecture, it would make our jobs with Raspbian much easier if CPU architecture dependent packages could test that the architecture is indeed Armv7+ and not blindly assume armhf implicitly means the system

Bug#679449: shared memory problem on armel

2013-02-07 Thread peter green
Ben Hutchings wrote: The wilful incompatibility of Debian derivatives Raspbian IS compatible with debian armhf in the sense that if your hardware supports it you can mix debian armhf packages and raspbian packages. In fact that is how raspbian was built in the first place. Precedent both with

where is the code that generates debian/rules.gen

2012-06-09 Thread peter green
I'm pretty sure both from the name and from behaviour i've seen as i've changed other things that debian/rules.gen in the source package linux-2.6 is a generated file. However I haven't been able to figure out where the code is that generated it. Can someone give me a pointer to the relavent co

Bug#474456: ethernet broken on a epox 8hda series motherboard from 2.6.23 onwards

2009-08-09 Thread peter green
Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 09:38:53PM +, peter green wrote: Can you please report it upstream at bugzilla.kernel.org and add the bug number to the bug log? Unfortunately it looks like i'll have to re-test with a vanilla upstream kernel before i'

Bug#474456: ethernet broken on a epox 8hda series motherboard from 2.6.23 onwards

2008-11-14 Thread peter green
Can you please report it upstream at bugzilla.kernel.org and add the bug number to the bug log? Unfortunately it looks like i'll have to re-test with a vanilla upstream kernel before i'm allowed to do that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Bug#474456: ethernet broken on a epox 8hda series motherboard from 2.6.23 onwards

2008-11-08 Thread peter green
Peter, is this bug still reproducible with 2.6.26 from Lenny? yes and with the 2.6.27 version from that archive someone told me to try earlier in the bug report. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#474456: ethernet broken on a epox 8hda series motherboard from 2.6.23 onwards

2008-04-05 Thread peter green
Package: linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64 Version: 2.6.24-5 Severity: important With 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 the onboard ethernet on my brothers desktop PC no longer works. The system announces the link is up then soon afterwards announces a timeout then announces it is up again and the process repeats end

Bug#404148: i'm not convinced release notes are enough

2007-03-13 Thread Peter Green
despite the best intentions of debian i am convinced that most users will not read the release notes and over the lifetime of the etch release having large ammounts (just how much is needed to trigger this bug btw) of memory will become more and more common. what does the sarge kernel do when plac

RE: Dropping 386 support

2004-10-04 Thread peter green
L PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 October 2004 14:33 > To: Peter Green > Cc: Adeodato Simó; debian-kernel@lists.debian.org; > debian-release@lists.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Dropping 386 support > > > peter green wrote: > > calling stuff i386 when it wi

RE: Dropping 386 support

2004-10-03 Thread peter green
calling stuff i386 when it will not run natively on a 386 seems like asking for confustion to me why and when was this instruction emulation needed in the first place (that is why and when was the userland changed to need it) > -Original Message- > From: Adeodato Simó [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

RE: [PROPOSAL] 2.4.27 as default 2.4 kernel for sarge

2004-08-27 Thread peter green
> -Original Message- > From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 27 August 2004 22:59 > To: debian-release@lists.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org; > debian-kernel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] 2.4.27 as default 2.4 kernel for sarge > > > Raphael Hertzog wrote: