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  • is there a working UP generic 4.X kernel available?

    From Bob Tracy@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 7 10:00:01 2019
    I'm finally starting to get a bit of traction on Debian bug #919825, but Michael Biebl would really like to see me testing with a Debian-provided
    kernel instead of my hand-built kernel.org versions (now running 5.0.0).
    I saw where Ben Hutchings grabbed the fix referenced here (https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/merge_requests/79) for
    inclusion in sid, and the corresponding issue was closed approximately
    four weeks ago. A quick check of the kernels available over at "http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-alpha/main/l/linux/"
    doesn't show anything with a late enough date stamp to include the fix.

    If I'm mistaken as to the availability of a working generic kernel for single-processor alpha systems, kindly point me to it and I'll be happy
    to give it a try. Otherwise, what's the targeted kernel version for the
    fix in sid? And approximately when might that show up?

    As usual, many thanks in advance.

    --Bob

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  • From Frank Scheiner@21:1/5 to Bob Tracy on Thu Mar 7 22:10:02 2019
    Hi Bob,

    On 3/7/19 09:59, Bob Tracy wrote:
    I'm finally starting to get a bit of traction on Debian bug #919825, but Michael Biebl would really like to see me testing with a Debian-provided kernel instead of my hand-built kernel.org versions (now running 5.0.0).
    I saw where Ben Hutchings grabbed the fix referenced here (https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/merge_requests/79) for
    inclusion in sid, and the corresponding issue was closed approximately
    four weeks ago. A quick check of the kernels available over at "http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-alpha/main/l/linux/"
    doesn't show anything with a late enough date stamp to include the fix.

    You could use an SMP kernel right-now from Debian Ports instead. They do
    work without the fix on MP **and** SP Alpha machines.


    If I'm mistaken as to the availability of a working generic kernel for single-processor alpha systems, kindly point me to it and I'll be happy
    to give it a try. Otherwise, what's the targeted kernel version for the
    fix in sid? And approximately when might that show up?

    Ben included the fix in [1] and 4.19.0-3 (4.19.20-1) should have it
    included ([2]).

    [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/commit/886c02b804afbc9bdf6f5bb955d1778dd7f60dff

    [2]: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/commit/9050e91ac08f3411937c14288f986b674e5f59bf

    Cheers,
    Frank

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