Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-09-24 Thread Geoff Levand
Hi Ben, On 09/21/2018 04:20 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I've applied these, with some changes: > > 0001: Rather than changing the setting of CONFIG_ACPI_NFIT for arm64, I > removed it entirely as it would be redundant with the top-level config. > > 0002: I dropped several of the config symbols

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-09-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 08:32 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: > On 09/20/2018 12:49 PM, Geoff Levand wrote: > > Attached are the two kernel config patches rebased to the latest > > v4.18.6-1 > > Buster kernel. > > Forgot to include the rebased m400 fixup patch. > >

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-09-21 Thread Geoff Levand
On 09/20/2018 12:49 PM, Geoff Levand wrote: > Attached are the two kernel config patches rebased to the latest v4.18.6-1 > Buster kernel. Forgot to include the rebased m400 fixup patch. 0001-arm64-Use-default-of-CONFIG_ACPI_NFIT-m.patch 0002-arm64-Updates-for-ACPI-servers.patch

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-09-20 Thread Geoff Levand
Hi Ben, Attached are the two kernel config patches rebased to the latest v4.18.6-1 Buster kernel. 0001-arm64-Use-default-of-CONFIG_ACPI_NFIT-m.patch 0002-arm64-Updates-for-ACPI-servers.patch Do you plan to merge these? If there is anything I can do to make things easier for you please let

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-09-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2018-09-04 at 11:43 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: [...] > At this point I feel our choices are: > > 1) Merge the kernel config patch I proposed and add a comment to > the arm64 Installation Guide about the need to add 'hest_disable=1' > to the kernel command line for the m400. > > 2) Merge

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-09-05 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 11:43:07AM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: > > Is it resolved? Graeme Gregory claimed > > (https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg669946.html) that "most > > people are running the firmware provided from HPe support but was never > > put on release site". > > I took that

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-09-04 Thread Geoff Levand
Hi Ben, On 09/04/2018 10:25 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2018-08-31 at 15:42 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: >> I've rebased my two kernel config patches, attached, to the latest >> v4.17.17-1 buster kernel. These patches enable kernel features for >> newer ARM64 servers. >> >>

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-09-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2018-08-31 at 15:42 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: > Hi, > > I've rebased my two kernel config patches, attached, to the latest > v4.17.17-1 buster kernel. These patches enable kernel features for > newer ARM64 servers. > > 0001-arm64-Use-default-of-CONFIG_ACPI_NFIT-m.patch >

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-09-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2018-08-31 at 14:52 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: > In summary, the latest released m400 firmware > did not support APEI, and so no special work-around or kernel quirk > support is needed. That seems reasonable enough to me, no reason to support random back- channel (un)released firmware.

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-08-31 Thread Geoff Levand
Hi, I've rebased my two kernel config patches, attached, to the latest v4.17.17-1 buster kernel. These patches enable kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. 0001-arm64-Use-default-of-CONFIG_ACPI_NFIT-m.patch 0002-arm64-Updates-for-ACPI-servers.patch The issue that Riku brought up of how

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-08-31 Thread Geoff Levand
Hi, I've rebased my two kernel config patches, attached, to the latest v4.17.17-1 buster kernel. These patches enable kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. 0001-arm64-Use-default-of-CONFIG_ACPI_NFIT-m.patch 0002-arm64-Updates-for-ACPI-servers.patch The issue that Riku brought up of how

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-08-06 Thread Geoff Levand
Hi All, On 08/06/2018 06:29 AM, Riku Voipio wrote: > Thanks indeed - unfortunately we seem to be endind up in > a dead end with the upstream developers: > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg669674.html > > Considering HPE didn't actually release the firmware, I think we > can go

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-08-06 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:58:56AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 12:25 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: > > On 06/09/2018 05:15 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > > I think this is probably something for the arch (or perhaps > > > platform) > > > code to deal with. See for example all

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-06-14 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 12:25 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: > On 06/09/2018 05:15 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > I think this is probably something for the arch (or perhaps > > platform) > > code to deal with. See for example all the various platform quirks > > in > > arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c, which

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-06-13 Thread Geoff Levand
On 06/09/2018 05:15 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > I think this is probably something for the arch (or perhaps platform) > code to deal with. See for example all the various platform quirks in > arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c, which fixup various wrongness and/or > disable features. I followed your

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-06-09 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2018-06-08 at 12:33 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: > On 06/05/2018 12:28 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 02:14 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > >> I don't think it's OK to cause a regression like this. Since this > is > >> problem affects a specific known platform, the

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-06-08 Thread Geoff Levand
On 06/05/2018 12:28 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 02:14 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> I don't think it's OK to cause a regression like this. Since this is >> problem affects a specific known platform, the driver ought to >> recognise it and disable itself automatically. > >

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-06-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 02:14 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I don't think it's OK to cause a regression like this. Since this is > problem affects a specific known platform, the driver ought to > recognise it and disable itself automatically. Indeed, while the Fedora bug upthread claims such a

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-06-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2018-06-04 at 08:29 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: > On 06/04/2018 03:51 AM, Riku Voipio wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 10:07:57AM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: > > > o Change CONFIG_ACPI_NFIT=y to CONFIG_ACPI_NFIT=m. > > > o Enable CONFIG_SCHED_SMT for hyperthreading processors. > > > o

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-06-04 Thread Geoff Levand
On 06/04/2018 03:51 AM, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 10:07:57AM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: >> o Change CONFIG_ACPI_NFIT=y to CONFIG_ACPI_NFIT=m. >> o Enable CONFIG_SCHED_SMT for hyperthreading processors. >> o Enable CONFIG_ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS for v8.1 processors. >> o Enable a

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-06-04 Thread Riku Voipio
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 10:07:57AM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: > Source: linux > Severity: normal > Tags: patch buster > > Attached patches enable kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Thanks, I've been looking into updating these. > o Change CONFIG_ACPI_NFIT=y to CONFIG_ACPI_NFIT=m. > o

Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

2018-06-01 Thread Geoff Levand
X-Debbugs-Cc: ge...@infradead.org, Riku Voipio Source: linux Severity: normal Tags: patch buster Attached patches enable kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. o Change CONFIG_ACPI_NFIT=y to CONFIG_ACPI_NFIT=m. o Enable CONFIG_SCHED_SMT for hyperthreading processors. o Enable