On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 10:09:29AM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Dear Adrian, > > On 1/21/19 00:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On 1/20/19 9:40 PM, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > Thank you! I'll give the Alpha version a try in the next few days. > > > Waiting on a 4.18 kernel build: should be done in the next 24 hours > > > or so. > > > > The klibc package included in the current images is affected by a > > serious bug which breaks the boot on nearly all architecture [1]. > > > > I will therefore have to build new images once the new klibc package > > has been synced on the FTP mirrors. > > I did not yet check the ISO for Alpha, but what kernel version and type > (non-MP/MP) does it include actually? > > Because we had that problem with non-MP kernels not working on many - if > not all - Alpha machines earlier. And although it was actually fixed by > Michael, the fix is only included since Linux v5.0-rc1 according to the > tagging as I understand it, see [1] for details. > > [1]: > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ab7d47bcbf0144a8cb81536c2cead4cde18acfe > > So maybe it'd be better to delay the rebuild until after Linux 5.0 > reaches unstable?
We should get that backported to the stable series. I've added a comment to: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/merge_requests/79 Cheers Michael.
