Re: Next (old)stable point releases

2013-08-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
ep 7-8 >- Sep 28-29 >- Oct 12-13 >- Oct 19-20 -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Since phone messaging became popular, the young generation has lost the ability to read or write anything that is longer than one hundred and sixty charact

Re: Bug#874251: installation-reports: Debian 9.1 installer fails on HP ProLiant DL360 G4 with HP Smart Array 6i

2017-09-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
"NMI watchdog: BUG: soft >> lockup" - see the screenshot in the attachment. >> >> Booting and running installer was successful after adding acpi=off >> kernel parameter. > >Is that something to be fixed on the kernel side? Or some buggy UEFI >that would need a workaround maybe? That's a good question. acpi=off is often a workaround for buggy firmware in my experience, but not typically something fixable externally. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: Bug#874251: installation-reports: Debian 9.1 installer fails on HP ProLiant DL360 G4 with HP Smart Array 6i

2017-09-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 08:13:39PM +0200, rpr // wrote: >On 4 September 2017 at 16:50, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> >>>Is that something to be fixed on the kernel side? Or some buggy UEFI >>>that would need a workaround maybe? >> >> That's a good que

Re: Secure boot signing infrastructure - feedback request

2017-10-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
e reliability issues you pointed out on the wiki. Right - we're trying to consider the issues as we go. >> I would like to know everyone's opinions about these approaches, if you >> agree to go forward with the second approach described above and how do >> we solve the

Re: Secure boot signing infrastructure - feedback request

2017-10-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 07:00:14PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Mon, 2017-10-09 at 17:38 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 02:01:15PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >[...] >> > It also appears to mean that buildds can get anything signed on dema

Re: Secure boot signing infrastructure - feedback request

2017-10-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
as much as I can. I recognise that not everybody might be able to (or willing to) attend in person, but I don't think that should be a barrier to constructive discussions. Thoughts? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Secure boot signing infrastructure - feedback request

2017-11-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
unds like a more useful compromise. >Secondly, the detached signatures would be uploaded as an extra package >to a separate archive suite, similar to the way debug symbol packages >are now handled. Those extra packages could easily be ignored when >attempting

Re: Secure boot signing infrastructure - feedback request

2017-11-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
t; other will be present. >> @ftpmasters and @Ben, if you could reply if you would be willing to >> attend it would be great, so we can start organizing it and work >> together to find a good solution. > >I am willing to attend and work on this if we can agree on the &

Proposal: UEFI secure boot implementation sprint, early 2018

2017-11-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
cureBoot#Wrap-up_of_the_discussions_so_far [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-efi/2017/10/msg00029.html [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-efi/2017/11/msg00007.html [4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-efi/2017/11/msg8.html -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

2016-06-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
4 disks and you're trying to boot off it with grub-pc. You're hitting BIOS limitations here - the BIOS is only capable of accessing 4 disks. I'm *guessing* that maybe the newer grub in jessie is just being pickier about checking BIOS access to those disks. Try just us

CONFIG_IP_PNP?

2015-04-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
seem to be any major downsides, just a very small amount of extra code size AFAICS. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Since phone messaging became popular, the young generation has lost the ability to read or write anything that is longer t

Bug#784344: Buggy DTB causes imx53 SATA failure

2015-05-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1 Severity: serious Hi guys, Just debugged on harris.debian.org (imx53, Debian porter box) - there's a missing patch that's needed for the imx53 sata controller to work. At some point, it looks like the code in drivers/ata/ahci_imx.c has changed and

Bug#784761: Missing arm64 DTBs

2015-05-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: linux-image-4.0.0-trunk-arm64 Version: 4.0-1~exp1 Severity: serious As mentioned on IRC, this package is missing all the DTBs for arm64 machines. Looks like it's a change to the DTB layout in the upstream tree causing it. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers oldoldsta

Bug#785707: Add USB support for APM Mustang

2015-05-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
m + + * arm64: enable XHCI USB on APM X-Gene + * usb: host: allow 64-bit DMA mask for XHCI + + -- Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> Fri, 15 May 2015 09:41:31 +0100 + linux (3.16.7-ckt9-2) unstable; urgency=medium * btrfs: simplify insert_orphan_item (Closes: #782362) diff -Nru linux-

Bug#785707: Add USB support for APM Mustang

2015-05-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 02:20:08PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 12:52 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> diff -Nru linux-3.16.7-ckt9/debian/changelog >> linux-3.16.7-ckt9/debian/changelog >> --- linux-3.16.7-ckt9/debian/changelog 2015-04-13 01:

Bug#785707: Add USB support for APM Mustang

2015-05-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 08:03:12PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 20:02 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >> On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 12:52 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > +CONFIG_USB_XHCI_PLATFORM=y >> >> This guy seems to match on: >&

Bug#785707: Add USB support for APM Mustang

2015-05-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Here's patch v2... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back diff -Nru linux-3.16.7-ckt9/debian/changelog linux-3.16.7-ckt9/debian/changelog --- linux-3.16.7-ckt9/d

Bug#785707: Add USB support for APM Mustang

2015-05-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 07:49:37PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 07:53 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Here's patch v2... > >Thanks. > >Has this been posted to anywhere upstream? Usual policy is that this >should happen before we take it into our k

Bug#785707: Add USB support for APM Mustang

2015-06-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
spotted there was a v3 and b) committed it to >svn for both Sid and Jessie already, so I shall be doing no such thing! Yay! :-) (Belatedly) tested and working for me - my Mustang happily talks USB now \o/. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com &quo

Bug#859641: Please increase USBIP_VHCI_HC_PORTS and USBIP_VHCI_NR_HCS

2017-04-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Source: linux Version: 4.9.13-1~bpo8+1 Severity: minor Hi guys, In Linaro we're making a lot of use of USB-over-IP devices these days for our testing lab. We've hit a (very small!) limit defined in kernel config for the number of virtual host controllers and the ports allowed per controller. Cur

Bug#859641: Please increase USBIP_VHCI_HC_PORTS and USBIP_VHCI_NR_HCS

2017-04-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:51:14PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: >Steve McIntyre writes: > >> In Linaro we're making a lot of use of USB-over-IP devices these days >> for our testing lab. We've hit a (very small!) limit defined in kernel >> config for the number o

Bug#861898: Please backport SPCR patch for ACPI console on arm64

2017-05-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Source: linux Version: 4.9.25-1 Severity: normal Hi folks, 4.9 already includes ACPI support for arm64, which is great. There's one driver fixup which only went into 4.10, and it would be lovely if you could backport it for 4.9 (and hence Stretch): https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git

Re: Bug#867898: debian-installer-netboot-images: debian-installer-9-netboot-amd64 scsi modules missing. Netboot image unusable

2017-07-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
mp;.cgifields=type > >Adding debian-cd@ accordingly. scsi-modules-* has been in the exclude-udebs list since forever... I can remove that if desired? Not sure of exactly why this was added - tracking back through debian-cd history now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Bug#867898: debian-installer-netboot-images: debian-installer-9-netboot-amd64 scsi modules missing. Netboot image unusable

2017-07-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 01:09:58AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 01:50:34AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> >>> But this package is also missing on the "release" DVDs for "amd64". >>> Nearly every other architecture has thi

Re: Enhancement of unsupported adapters

2017-08-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
e to integrate the github fix for the realtek >adapter rtl8723bs with SDIO supporrt into the unsupported part of the debian >distribution? Hi Thomas, The Debian-CD list isn't the best place for this kind of request. You're better off talking to the kernel maintainers - see t

Bug#904385: arm64: sigaltstack fails with MINSIGSTKSZ for 32-bit processes

2018-09-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 04:25:03PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 09:40:33PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >>control: affects -1 glibc >>control: found linux/4.17.6-2 >> >>On 2018-07-23 21:31, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >>> Package: src:linux

Re: Proposal: UEFI secure boot implementation sprint, early 2018

2018-01-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
ge too). Please fill in there the dates that you can make and we'll get organised. Cheers, -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Google-bait: http://www.debian.org/CD/free-linux-cd Debian does NOT ship free CDs. Please do NOT contact the mailing lists asking us to send them to you.

Re: Proposal: UEFI secure boot implementation sprint, early 2018

2018-01-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 05:42:24PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >Hey Helen! Thanks for picking this up. Apologies for me going dark >about this. I had a torrid time of things in December with a family >bereavement, and this was one of many things that I had to drop >temporarily. &

Re: Proposal: UEFI secure boot implementation sprint, early 2018

2018-01-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 02:42:41AM +0530, Chris Lamb wrote: >Hi Steve, > >> We have 7 people with dates in the poll so far: > >I wrote it in the poll form so perhaps repeating in this context; I'm only >listed as a "backup" of sorts! ACK, I saw that. :-

UPDATE: Re: Proposal: UEFI secure boot implementation sprint, 5-8 April 2018

2018-01-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 05:49:20PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >We have 7 people with dates in the poll so far: > > Helen Koike > Luke Faraone > Me > Ben Hutchings > Tollef Fog Heen > Chris Lamb > Philipp Hahn > >Any more people interested in coming? If so, p

Re: Bug#886782: pulseaudio: Audio playback is slow (sample rate mismatch?)

2018-02-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
lks - sorry, looks like this is your bug (and clearly upstream!). Quickly responding here again - we've just tried the latest kernel from experimental (4.15.0-rc8) and this still shows the same problem. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Who n

Re: UPDATE: Re: Proposal: UEFI secure boot implementation sprint, 5-8 April 2018

2018-02-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 11:46:10AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >HOWEVER... those dates clash with another group already booked in at >the LinuxHotel in Essen. So we've started talking to people in Fulsa >as a fallback option. We have a tentative space for a venue and now we &g

Bug#772578: Missing keyboard modules i2c_designware_*

2015-08-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 03:23:50PM +0200, Hendrik Weimer wrote: >Steve McIntyre writes: > >> We'll need to make sure that the same set of modules are included in >> the initramfs generated on the installed system, of course... > >This doesn't seem to be the c

Re: cdrecord and newer Linux kernels

2005-11-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
devices but on others harmless / useful / required (even); several years of writing SCSI-based storage management software has show me that. :-) Allowing a mechanism for an admin to override the in-kernel policy on a per-device, per-command basis could allow us to safely allow non-root CD/DVD burning,

cdrecord and newer Linux kernels

2005-11-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
ext with this to try and get such a feature into the kernel - the main kernel list, the SCSI list, the debian kernel list? Of course, comments on the code/design of what I've done would be more than welcome. Patch (against 2.6.13) attached for interest... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, U

Re: cdrecord and newer Linux kernels

2005-11-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Bugger, got the cdrtools-devel address wrong on the first mail. Now fixed. ] On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:53:00AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:47:29PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> In kernel 2.6.8 and later, SCSI generic commands are verified for >&g

Weirdity in linux-modules-extra-2.6

2008-09-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
ary: field. This seems to be the case for both lenny and sid. Is that a bug in the package, or somewhere else (e.g. dak)? Cheers, -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Weirdity in linux-modules-extra-2.6

2008-09-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:49:51PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Hi folks, > >I've been tracking down a build failure in the current lenny >multi-arch i386/amd64/powerpc/source DVD. What I've found is an oddity >in the Sources.gz file: the stanza for the source package

Bug#419482: Kernel 2.6.18 - ALI15X3 driver too optmistic about UDMA

2007-04-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
17.0 +0100 @@ -378,6 +379,8 @@ struct hd_driveid *id = drive->id; #endif /* CONFIG_WDC_ALI15X3 */ + return 0; + if (m5229_revision <= 0x20) { return 0; } else if ((m5229_revision < 0xC2) && -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge,

Bug#419482: Kernel 2.6.18 - ALI15X3 driver too optmistic about UDMA

2007-04-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 06:26:35PM -0700, Martin Michlmayr wrote: >* Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-16 00:29]: >> On the "cats" machines that we use for arm buildd work, it seems the >> kernel is too aggressive in enabling UDMA support for the onboard ID

Bug#304267: Re: Re: HP i2000 install problems

2006-11-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 07:11:33PM +0100, Dennis Grevenstein wrote: >On 11/14/06, Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>OK, same problem then. I had to install woody, then build a custom >>kernel too. I'll dig out my patch for you if you like. > >sure

DPL teams review 2008

2008-04-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
=== Other stuff === That's the list of things I'm hoping to learn more about from this review of teams. Of course, I'm sure there are many other things in Debian that you'd like to ask or tell me about. By all means, talk t

Bug#896775: [PATCH] Backport support for Qualcomm Centriq onboard emac NIC

2018-04-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Source: linux Version: 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hey folks, I've backported support for the onboard network interface on the Qualcomm Centriq arm64 server platform, mostly straight cherry-picks from upstream 4.15. Please apply the patch to add this support for the next Stretch

Bug#896775: Acknowledgement ([PATCH] Backport support for Qualcomm Centriq onboard emac NIC)

2018-04-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
se, at https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/merge_requests/8 Please shout if you need me to do anything more. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com There's no sensation to compare with this Suspended animation, A state of bliss

Bug#896775: Acknowledgement ([PATCH] Backport support for Qualcomm Centriq onboard emac NIC)

2018-05-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 12:21:28PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >I've also added a backport for the one erratum that's known about for >Falkor v2 CPUs (E1041). Other Qualcomm errata code is in upstream, but >the other snippets are for v1 which is not widely available so

Re: Scheduling 9.5

2018-06-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
th the situation for a >short while, or do 9.5 before 8.11. In practical terms, that would >likely mean both 9.5 and 8.11 on June 23rd, freezing both next weekend. >How do people feel about that? That works ok for me. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess

Re: Scheduling 9.5

2018-06-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
9.5, we know that June 30th is a no-go, Debcamp >starts on July 21st and then Debconf on the 28th. So that leaves us with: > >- July 7th >- July 14th > >Are people available for either or both of those dates? Both look good for me, yup. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#904385: arm64: sigaltstack fails with MINSIGSTKSZ for 32-bit processes

2018-07-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
all. >> > >I forgot to say that the problem is reproducible with kernel 4.17.6. Fix proposed in https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/25/409 -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...

Re: Status and open questions for debian-installer with backports support

2018-08-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
se) updated in >stable. This would greatly help building, testing, and running >debian-installer without having to special-case everything in various >places. Of course this is subject to a green light from the release >team, but I might be trusted to get things right (and/or to get the

Re: Status and open questions for debian-installer with backports support

2018-08-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 01:44:48PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: >On 08/13/2018 01:57 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 10:56:59AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >>> => Question: should we restrict architectures we build images for? >> >> Proba

Re: No longer sign i386 kernels

2023-12-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
his for users and be consistent for all the EFI signed binaries - there's no point in signing i386 grub and fwupd or having a signed shim if we don't have a signed kernel. Agreed? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < Aardvark> I dislik

Re: No longer sign i386 kernels

2023-12-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 11:44:52PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >Hello, > >On 06/12/2023 at 22:09, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 06:01:17PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: >> > >> > I would like do stop signing i386 kernels. >>

Re: [arm64] secure boot breach via VFIO_NOIOMMU

2023-12-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
d >https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/502#note_315464 > >The proposed patch felt probably trough the cracks. Nod. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com The two hard things in computing: * naming things * cache invalidation * off-by-one errors -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen

Re: How to revoke Debian kernels for secure boot

2023-12-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
for >kernels). It's a difficult thing to do, especially in light of significant pushback from upstream developers. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrational if you like, but I'm afraid I'll miss my stop" -- Vivek Das Mohapatra

Bug#959170: linux: at boot: Process '/usr/sbin/alsactl ... restore 0' failed with exit code 99

2024-07-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
the desktop system, if I kill one of the bits in the stack (e.g. pipewire-pulse), things re-initialise OK and the device shows up. I don't know if this data point is useful, but I thought it was worth sharing maybe. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@e

Re: Uploading linux (6.10.7-1)

2024-09-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
ce I'd guess we would get more >things to look at. > >I'll let Steve comment on the preferred timings. Let's go, I think - if the 6.10.8-1 upload builds and migrates OK then let's try and get a d-i release built with that. I should have time in the next week o

Re: Handling next linux upload to unstable

2024-09-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
gt;thread). > >> Once 6.11 would be released and we know it's stabilised in >> experimental we would like to move it to unstable and make the way >> free in experimental for 6.12-rcX, as the later is in particular >> important to make 6.12.y ready as this is expected to

Re: Handling next linux upload to unstable

2024-09-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 12:31:12AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Steve McIntyre (2024-09-14): >> >> That looks great for me, thanks. > >Then I think my work here is done: > >kibi@respighi:~$ dak ls debian-installer -s testing,unstable -a source >

Re: Handling next linux upload to unstable

2024-09-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 11:08:34PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Steve McIntyre (2024-09-15): >> Kibi: just checking, are you happy for me to call this trixie d-i >> alpha 1? > >As communicated a few times in previous mails already: not at all. Understood, I'm glad

Shim and secure boot status, leading up to bookworm

2023-01-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
oot chain. :-( There's a mitigating factor here: *such* new machines may already reject our older signed binaries anyway. We're stuck in a bad situation here I'm afraid; I think the only sensible way is forward, applying NX patches as soon as they&#x

Re: Shim and secure boot status, leading up to bookworm

2023-01-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Antonio, On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 04:17:50PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: >On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 06:11:45PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> The MS and cert issues are now both resolved, and I'm now working on a >> shim *15.7* upload. There's a little m

Re: Shim and secure boot status, leading up to bookworm

2023-01-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
bookworm. HTH! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com “Why do people find DNS so difficult? It’s just cache invalidation and naming things.” -– Jeff Waugh (https://twitter.com/jdub)

Bug#1032362: Kernel doesn't find SATA ports on Softiron 1000 (arm64 Seattle)

2023-03-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
Source: linux Version: 6.1.12-1 Severity: important Hey folks, I've just upgraded my Seattle-based system to bookworm and it no longer finds the onboard AHCI SATA storage so it stops at an initramfs prompt. Going back to the current bullseye kernel (5.10.162-1), it all works just fine. As far as

Bug#1032362: Kernel doesn't find SATA ports on Softiron 1000 (arm64 Seattle)

2023-03-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Mar 05, 2023 at 12:09:24AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Source: linux >Version: 6.1.12-1 >Severity: important > >Hey folks, > >I've just upgraded my Seattle-based system to bookworm and it no >longer finds the onboard AHCI SATA storage so it stops at an ini

Bug#989010: linux-image-5.10.0-7-amd64: No display (post, grub, boot messages and desktop) after the upgrade to 5.10.38

2021-07-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
. Your tone and wording in several of your messages here are utterly unacceptable. You've used abusive language about people who are volunteers working to improve Debian in their own time. I would strongly suggest that you revisit what you've written and consider apologi

Bug#992238: debian-installer: Installation fails on HP ProLiant m400 Server: additional cores crash, kernel hangs in acpi_init

2021-08-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 12:54:47PM +0200, Justus Winter wrote: >Steve McIntyre writes: >> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 10:09:49AM +0200, Justus Winter wrote: >>>Package: debian-installer >>>Version: 20210731 >>>Severity: critical >>>Tags: d-i >>

Bug#992238: debian-installer: Installation fails on HP ProLiant m400 Server: additional cores crash, kernel hangs in acpi_init

2021-08-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 01:24:14PM +0200, Justus Winter wrote: >Steve McIntyre writes: >> >> OK, and my upgrade worked just fine. The key difference that I'm >> seeing is that on my system ACPI is *not* used: >> >> root@mustang4:/home/steve# grep ACPI /var/

Bug#993612: bugs.debian.org: Socionext SynQuacer fails to mount rootfs after upgrade to Bullseye

2021-09-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
e a synquacer here still and I'll take a look. I noticed on bullseye release day that USB stuff didn't seem to work in the installer on the synquacer either. Maybe there's been a regression in config. :-/ I'll take a look... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#993612: bugs.debian.org: Socionext SynQuacer fails to mount rootfs after upgrade to Bullseye

2021-09-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 06:50:16PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >I have a synquacer here still and I'll take a look. I noticed on >bullseye release day that USB stuff didn't seem to work in the >installer on the synquacer either. Maybe there's been a regression in

Re: Bug#771465: i386 hd-media image does not boot on Macbooks with 32-bit EFI

2014-11-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
even for 64-bit systems" (#768461) Hopefully a combination of these 2 fixes will make your system work out of the box... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane..

Bug#772578: Missing keyboard modules i2c_designware_*

2015-01-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
he installer. We'll need to make sure that the same set of modules are included in the initramfs generated on the installed system, of course... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I used to be the first kid on the block wanting a cranial

Bug#775191: [PATCH] efi: Expose underlying UEFI firmware platform size to userland

2015-01-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: src:linux Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi folks, This patch has been accepted by the efi maintainer for the efi/next tree. It would be lovely if you'd accept it for the Jessie kernel too, for the Bay Trail etc. support. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridg

Bug#776957: Panic at boot on arm64 systems

2015-02-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt4-2 Severity: grave Tags: patch upstream The latest upstream stable kernel pull is broken on arm64. The system panics during early boot in arch_timer setup. The cause is simple. Commit 0b46b8a718c6e90910a1b1b0fe797be3c167e186 was pulled into stable, but a lat

Bug#780858: Massive I/O data corruption on Marvell Armada XP machines

2015-03-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt7-1 Severity: grave Tags: upstream Hi folks, We've upgraded a couple of our Marvell Armada XP based (armel/armhf) buildd machines to Jessie, and they've almost immediately fallen over with symptoms of really bad data corruption. On further investigation and d

Bug#780858: Massive I/O data corruption on Marvell Armada XP machines

2015-03-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: tag -1 +pending On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 04:13:20PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Package: src:linux >Version: 3.16.7-ckt7-1 >Severity: grave >Tags: upstream > >Hi folks, > >We've upgraded a couple of our Marvell Armada XP based (armel/armhf) >buildd machin

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite using 4.19.118+2+deb10u1, 4.19.98+1+deb10u1 works fine

2020-06-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
Source: linux Version: 4.19.118-2+deb10u1 Severity: serious Hi folks, Trying to reproduce #963462 on my Thinkpad T470, I'm repeatedly getting a hard lockup running the strace testsuite. I've done this 4 times to be sure. Each time it seems to have failed in a slightly different place in the tests

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite using 4.19.118+2+deb10u1, 4.19.98+1+deb10u1 works fine

2020-06-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Salvatore! On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 05:57:42PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: >Control: found -1 4.19.118-1 >Control: tags -1 + upstream > >Hi Steve, > >On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:58:35PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Source: linux >> Version: 4.19.118-

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite using 4.19.118+2+deb10u1, 4.19.98+1+deb10u1 works fine

2020-06-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 05:39:38PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 05:57:42PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: >>Control: found -1 4.19.118-1 >>Control: tags -1 + upstream >> >>> >>> As I can reproduce this quite easily, I'm hap

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite using 4.19.118+2+deb10u1, 4.19.98+1+deb10u1 works fine

2020-06-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
7b812116f19de6967084a647e 865a227665e460e159502f21e8a16e6fa590bf50 M security Considering I'm running strace build tests to provoke this bug, finding the failure in a commit talking about ptrace changes does look very suspicious...! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further c

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite on 4.19.98+ onwards

2020-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
running strace build tests to provoke this bug, finding the failure in a commit talking about ptrace changes does look very suspicious...! Annoyingly, I can't reproduce this on my disparate other machines here, suggesting it's maybe(?) timing related. Hope this helps - happy to give more

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite on 4.19.98+ onwards

2020-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Greg, On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 03:41:32PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: >On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:35:58PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> e58f543fc7c0926f31a49619c1a3648e49e8d233 is the first bad commit >> commit e58f543fc7c0926f31a49619c1a3648e49e8d233 >> Author: Ja

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite on 4.19.98+ onwards

2020-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 02:45:18PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Hey Greg, > >On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 03:41:32PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: >>On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:35:58PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> >>> e58f543fc7c0926f31a49619c1a3648e49e8d233 i

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite on 4.19.98+ onwards

2020-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Jann, On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 04:25:59PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote: >On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 3:41 PM Greg KH wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:35:58PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: ... >> > Considering I'm running strace build tests to provoke this bug, >> >

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite on 4.19.98+ onwards

2020-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi again, On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 05:50:00PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 04:25:59PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote: >>On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 3:41 PM Greg KH wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:35:58PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >... > >>&

Bug#963493: Repeatable hard lockup running strace testsuite on 4.19.98+ onwards

2020-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 10:29:28AM -0700, John Johansen wrote: >On 6/26/20 9:50 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> OK, will try that second... >> > >I have not been able to reproduce but > >So looking at linux-4.19.y it looks like >1f8266ff5884 apparmor: don&#x

Re: Firmware testing images broken

2020-09-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 07:25:36PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Tue, 2020-09-15 at 10:01 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> And fixed as of today's daily builds. >> >> Thanks for the report! > >Thanks Steve. We probably should have thought to update

Re: Plan of action for Secure Boot support

2014-08-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 01:38:44PM -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >So far as I know, no progress has been made on the above steps or any >alternate approach. Ditto, I've not seen (or done) anything about this. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st

Bug#930554: Please add support for Huawei's TaiShan server platform

2019-06-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
Source: linux Version: 4.19.28-2 Severity: important Hi folks, The TaiShan is an arm64 server made by Huawei, using the HiSilicon 1620 CPU. It's a nice big beast of a machine, with lots of cores, memory etc. We've been loaned one to use (maybe as a buildd?), but at the moment the Buster kernel do

Bug#930554: Please add support for Huawei's TaiShan server platform

2019-06-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 01:19:08PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Source: linux >Version: 4.19.28-2 >Severity: important > >Hi folks, > >The TaiShan is an arm64 server made by Huawei, using the HiSilicon >1620 CPU. It's a nice big beast of a machine, with lots of c

Bug#935318: Network interfaces not working in d-i on HiSilicon D05

2019-08-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
x27;t find a carrier on any of the network interfaces. I'm going to dig into this further and see if I can make any progress to see what's up. For reference, Ubuntu 18.04.01 seems to work fine on the same hardware (kernel 4.15.0-58). Cheers, Steve McIntyre IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of

Bug#922478: upgrade linux-image-4.9.0-8-armmp-lpae:armhf from 4.9.130-2 to 4.9.144-3 renders many systems unbootable

2019-02-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
bian 4.9.144-4~20190217~1 (2019-02-17) >armv7l GNU/Linux Yes, me too. Built similar and tested on the Marvell Armada XP here and it solved the problem. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt

Bug#922478: upgrade linux-image-4.9.0-8-armmp-lpae:armhf from 4.9.130-2 to 4.9.144-3 renders Bananapi and Lamobo R1 unbootable

2019-02-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
ed kernelci as a useful thing to help here, but we really need to be testing kernels complete with all the Debian patches to... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.

Bug#922478: have yet to find an armhf board that works with 4.9.144-3

2019-02-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
t: [PATCH] Update debian/arm-avoid-abi-change-in-4.9.139.patch (Closes: > #922478). > >This makes it take into account the function pointers reordering in >arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S (addition of check_bugs), fixing the failure >to boot many armhf devices. > >With thanks to Adrian

Missing virtio/scsi modules for arm64?

2019-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
s like block device support modules here. Cheers, Steve -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich

Re: Missing virtio/scsi modules for arm64?

2019-04-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 07:00:39PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Fri, 2019-04-26 at 02:17 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hey folks, >> >> I;m just trying to do a buster install of arm64 (using buster d-i RC1) >> in a qemu VM, and it's failing to find the virtio

Re: Missing virtio/scsi modules for arm64?

2019-04-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 12:07:05AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Fri, 2019-04-26 at 22:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >[...] >> Hmmm, looking at my local mirror, I think there's another problem >> then. I don't see scsi-modules-4.19* for arm64. Looks like we

Re: Missing virtio/scsi modules for arm64?

2019-04-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 12:39:31AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 12:07:05AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>On Fri, 2019-04-26 at 22:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>[...] >>> Hmmm, looking at my local mirror, I think there's another probl

Bug#944546: linux-source: Require build and include Hisilicon Hibmc drm driver in the installer

2020-02-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
the BMC virtual console graphic output works well after adding >the hibmc_drm.ko into the netboot initrd, could you please help to built and >include this driver module in the installer? I've just added a merge request for this: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/merge_requests

Re: Next (old)stable point releases

2013-09-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
>- Oct 19-20 >> > >> > Either of those is fine for me. >> > >> Alright, let's go for >> >> Oct 12-13: 7.3 > >Obviously I meant 7.2... > >> Oct 19-20: 6.0.8 Works for me... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Bug#730639: efibootmgr freeze system when creating boot entry

2013-11-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
grub-install, reboot, >manually create EFI boot entry in BIOS setup menu. > >What can I do to debug this issue? It sounds like you have either a kernel or hardware issue here - efibootmgr just uses the kernel-provided files in /sys as its interface to the hardware. Add

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