On Wed, 2025-09-24 at 02:30 -0700, Tony Rodriguez wrote: > Thanks Adrian, we appreciate your assistance, a new test kernel will be > great!
OK. > Regarding IB patches, it will be helpful to have more details > (meaningful issue descriptions) regarding Orabugs 23055865 and > 23055807. Many of us don't have Oracle MOS/BUGS related access. What > exactly do the following Infiniband patches resolve? > > https://github.com/oracle/linux-uek/commit/fc779be69835f2ce95b767faab4a5f6ba578a04f > > https://github.com/oracle/linux-uek/commit/2e3c491ee5973fee0cad79c7c807a2695f0b154d I don't know. I don't have access to Oracle's internal bug tracker either/ > It may be helpful to have web links, so we can easily see diffs and > issue descriptions for all Debian related patches used in the sparc64 > kernel. At this point, unsure how many Debian sparc64 patches in total > and what they fix? Web links to what? I have forked Oracle's UEK kernel with the uek4/qu7 set as the main branch. And that branch contains all the publicly known patches by Oracle engineers. > On another note, will there be an updated ISO image with new kernel > fixes within ports in the near future? Unsure what steps are involved > before all this work actually turns into an updated ISO release for > everyone? Curious regarding the process of going from one stage to the > next, since the latest sparc64 ports ISO is from May 2023. I am new > regarding understanding the Debian release process. > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/12.0/sparc64/ No, the latest image is from August 29 2025: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/ I also built an even newer image for testing here: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/tests/sparc64-20250923/ These images do not contain any of the patches yet as including a patched kernel in ISO images isn't really trivial due to the way images are built. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
