Bug#780773: Please backport EDAC_IE31200 to Linux 3.16.x

2015-06-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 12:04 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On 2015-04-07 0:17, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Bug #780773 requests backporting a new EDAC (Error Detection And > > Correction) driver that is wanted on some Intel-based servers. It > > seems > > to be simple to backport to 3.16, but I'm n

Bug#780773: Please backport EDAC_IE31200 to Linux 3.16.x

2015-06-11 Thread Adam Thompson
As far as I can tell, this is still outstanding - I have a newer server that does not yet have any access to ECC counters, status or alerts, under Debian 8. IIRC, I had verified that with a newer kernel, it “just worked” once I loaded the appropriate EDAC modules… I think I used RHEL6 with an up

Bug#780773: Please backport EDAC_IE31200 to Linux 3.16.x

2015-06-11 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2015-04-07 0:17, Ben Hutchings wrote: Bug #780773 requests backporting a new EDAC (Error Detection And Correction) driver that is wanted on some Intel-based servers. It seems to be simple to backport to 3.16, but I'm not sure whether it meets the release criteria. EDAC drivers are not need

Bug#780773: Please backport EDAC_IE31200 to Linux 3.16.x

2015-04-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
Bug #780773 requests backporting a new EDAC (Error Detection And Correction) driver that is wanted on some Intel-based servers. It seems to be simple to backport to 3.16, but I'm not sure whether it meets the release criteria. EDAC drivers are not needed for hardware enablement, but they are need

Bug#780773: Please backport EDAC_IE31200 to Linux 3.16.x

2015-03-20 Thread Vincent Blut
Le jeu. 19 mars 2015 à 7:59, Paul Menzel a écrit : […] Is that something that has to go over the Canonical Kernel Tree or does Debian also carry such backports separately? Hi Paul, The Canonical kernel team follows the stable upstream acceptance rules¹, thus backporting this new driver² wo

Bug#780773: Please backport EDAC_IE31200 to Linux 3.16.x

2015-03-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.5-1 Severity: minor Control: fixed -1 3.17-1~exp1 Control: fixed -1 3.19-1~exp1 Dear Debian folks, on a lot of recent Intel based servers ECC RAM cannot be taken advantage of in Debian (or Ubuntu), because the shipped Linux kernels do not have an EDAC module for