Bug#1051577: iproute2: obsolete conffiles

2023-09-13 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2023-09-12 at 23:13 +0200, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Mon, 11 Sept 2023 at 15:57, Daniel Gröber > wrote: > > > > Hi Luca, > > > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 01:06:06PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > I want to question whether removing these conffiles is a good idea at > > > > all. I'm

Re: increase kernel.pid_max?

2020-03-01 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2020-03-01 at 16:53 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2020-03-01 at 09:24 +0800, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I can't actually find when/where this changed in recent history -- I've > > only noticed these large pids in recent months, but it's entirely > >

Re: increase kernel.pid_max?

2020-02-29 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2020-02-29 at 20:14 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > looking at the number of cores and highly parallel applications > I wonder if it would be reasonable to increase the default > kernel.pid_max (currently 0x8000) to lets say 0x3f? > > Do you expect negative side effects?

Bug#933294: Kernel quirks on QNAP TS-109 (Marvell orion)

2019-08-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 15:51 +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Copying the relevant Debian bug (#933294). > > * Matthieu CERDA [2019-08-04 15:42]: > > In dmesg during boot, which I suspect means that something is wrong in > > GPIO / PIC communication. > > > > I tried to replicate the way Linux

Bug#914517: linux-image-4.19.0-4-amd64: System freezes with nomodeset set and boots in a loop without

2019-04-12 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2019-04-10 at 23:02 +0200, Robert Pommrich wrote: > Am 10.04.19 um 22:32 schrieb Ben Hutchings: > > On Wed, 2019-04-10 at 17:26 +0200, Robert Pommrich wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I really don't understand why the severity of this bug was lowered. > > > Plus, this was the only action

Re: Debian kernel bugs

2019-03-14 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 04:35 +, Russell Coker wrote: > Is there an archive of all the kernels that have been uploaded to Unstable > that I could do a binary search on and find out which version had the change > that broke things for me? snapshots.d.o should have everything, including the

Bug#917533: linux-image-4.9.0-8-marvell: nfs-kernel-server leaks ports and triggers rkhunter/unhide-tcp

2019-01-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2019-01-04 at 18:06 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > I'll also ping upstream about a possible stable backport shortly. Sent to https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev=154662768504311=2 (but I forgot to Cc the bug, sorry, will update here as I hear back). Ian.

Bug#917533: linux-image-4.9.0-8-marvell: nfs-kernel-server leaks ports and triggers rkhunter/unhide-tcp

2019-01-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2018-12-28 at 09:58 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > I'm next going to reboot into my locally built kernel with the > (likely/hopeful) > fix applied. I'll follow up in a few days (maybe a week to be sure) if I don't > see this issue recurring. If it is looking positive at that poi

Re: hardening-check can detect whether kernel is protected or not

2019-01-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2019-01-02 at 03:08 +0100, Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > Also how to get "not stripped" instead of "stripped" kernel? It is available as the file `vmlinux` at the root of the source tree after building, if you still have access to that. There is also the `linux-image-$(uname -r)-dbg`

Bug#917533: linux-image-4.9.0-8-marvell: nfs-kernel-server leaks ports and triggers rkhunter/unhide-tcp

2018-12-28 Thread Ian Campbell
Package: src:linux Version: 4.9.130-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, Every few days rkhunter starts reporting in its daily report: Warning: Hidden ports found: Port number: TCP:697 Which corresponds to running unhide-tcp: # unhide-tcp --lsof

Bug#915178: i915: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008

2018-12-01 Thread Ian Campbell
I think this might be the same as 914495. On Sat, 2018-12-01 at 17:33 -0800, Bill Brelsford wrote: > I get the same behavior (except at 0004) with > linux-image-4.18.0-3-686-pae. 4.18.0-2 was ok. On my system I observed that `modprobe i915` had hung (it was killable and I could try again,

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#905574: linux-image-4.17.0-0.bpo.1-amd64: cryptsetup missing in intitramfs for kernel 4.17

2018-08-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 23:47 +0800, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 14:40 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 21:15 +0800, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > Inspecting the initramfs shows that the cryptsetup related > > > > parts are &g

Bug#905574: linux-image-4.17.0-0.bpo.1-amd64: cryptsetup missing in intitramfs for kernel 4.17

2018-08-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 21:15 +0800, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Inspecting the initramfs shows that the cryptsetup related parts are > > missing for 4.17, but still in the 4.16 kernel. > > > > I was able to mitigate the issue by use the cryptsetup packages from > > buster. > > This is strange.

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 > >

Re: "external abort on linefetch (0x814)" on Kirkwood 6282 SoC

2018-06-09 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2018-06-09 at 16:23 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > Debian uses a Marvell specific kernel, so we don't need to worry > about > > the impact on other platforms. > > That i was not sure about. Are there any plans to merge all ARM v5 > kernels together? Not AFAIK, marvell is the only armv5

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 > >> probl

Re: "external abort on linefetch (0x814)" on Kirkwood 6282 SoC

2018-06-09 Thread Ian Campbell
(adding debian-kernel, context: external aborts on qnap/marvell systems with 1G of RAM, avoided with VMSPLIT_3G_OPT=y). On Sat, 2018-06-02 at 21:31 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 09:48:47PM +0300, Timo Jyrinki wrote: > > 2018-06-02 18:55 GMT+03:00 Ian Campbell :

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

Re: Fixing Linux getrandom() in stable

2018-05-10 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2018-05-10 at 10:41 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > It means that the configured timeout for which it's reasonable to wait for > randomness is centralized in one service that can set that based on > understanding of what's necessary in practice, and timeouts to catch other > startup problems

Re: Debian kernel packaging no longer accepts typical downstream version numbering.

2018-05-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 13:36 +0100, peter green wrote: > Common practice for downstreams (whether complete derivatives or end > users) is to version modified packages with a version number like > > 4.16.5-1+something1 > > Where "something" is the name of a project, the name of the person >

Re: D-Link DNS-323 support dropped in Debian stretch

2018-03-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 21:25 +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 07:36:26PM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > > There's one possibility that can bring back qnap, or even D-Link > > DNS device: > > - create a new flavour for armel, such as armel-none-mini > > - the new flavour

Re: Bug#870185: armel/marvell kernel size

2017-08-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2017-08-19 at 12:57 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > I know for bug #870185, Robert fixed his device by modify uboot > params, but I guess it's still possible to keep uboot params and only > change the boot addresses of kernel/initrd in flash-kernel db file. In

Bug#870185: FATAL: kernel 4.11.0-0.bpo.1-marvell does not boot on QNAP TS-219P II

2017-08-13 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2017-08-13 at 11:56 +0200, Robert Schlabbach wrote: > Von: "Ian Campbell" <i...@debian.org> > > There is one other option, which is to ask people to adjust their > u- > > boot boot scripts as Robert has done, however the QNAP systems are > &g

Bug#870185: FATAL: kernel 4.11.0-0.bpo.1-marvell does not boot on QNAP TS-219P II

2017-08-13 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2017-08-12 at 21:49 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2017-07-31 at 18:10 +0200, Robert Schlabbach wrote: > > Ok, I figured it out. I noticed that the 4.11 kernel has a more > > "generous" memory layout than the 4.9 one: > >  > > kernel 4.9: > >  > > [0.00] Memory:

Bug#870430: linux-image-4.9.0-3-marvell: Couldn't find DTB in /usr/lib/linux-image-4.9.0-3-marvell or /etc/flash-kernel/dtbs

2017-08-02 Thread Ian Campbell
Control: reassign -1 src:flash-kernel 3.79 On Tue, 2017-08-01 at 23:39 +0200, noone never wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 4.9.30-2+deb9u2 > Severity: important > Dear Maintainer, > > When I dist-upgrade my Sheevaplug from jessie to stretch, I get this error: > Couldn't find DTB  in

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

2017-07-30 Thread Ian Campbell
On 30 July 2017 19:05:18 BST, Roger Shimizu wrote: >On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Ben Hutchings >wrote: >> On Wed, 2017-05-03 at 23:12 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> linux 4.11-1~exp1 FTBFS on armel. I spent a little while >modularising >>>

Bug#852324: Disable CONFIG_DEBUG_WX in order to avoid this issue.

2017-07-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 19:23 +0200, Helio Loureiro wrote: > Hi, > > I already sent. Please provide a full serial log when booting with the bad kernel. Also please let us know what version of Xen you are running and whether this was running as a guest or as dom0. > And in the first post in this

Bug#852324: Disable CONFIG_DEBUG_WX in order to avoid this issue.

2017-07-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 18:51 +0200, Helio Loureiro wrote: > Hi, > > It can't be.  It is the same bug as describe in this one. > > If you read the first post, it can't boot and shows the same content > as in the bug I detected now on my system. Nowhere there does it say anything about failing to

Bug#852324: Disable CONFIG_DEBUG_WX in order to avoid this issue.

2017-07-26 Thread Ian Campbell
outage > because of this parameter. > > I held on kernel 3.19 from Jessie meanwhile. > > Best Regards, > Helio Loureiro > http://helio.loureiro.eng.br > https://se.linkedin.com/in/helioloureiro > http://twitter.com/helioloureiro > > > 2017-07-26 17:56 GMT+02:00 Ian Campbel

Bug#852324: Disable CONFIG_DEBUG_WX in order to avoid this issue.

2017-07-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 17:13 +0200, Helio Loureiro wrote: > Hi, > > As much it sounds correct to protect systems in this way, you broke > compatibility.  I'm back to kernel 3.19 until this is fixed. > > So in order to have such parameter enabled, you should at the least > provide a bootparam

Re: Removing inactive members from Alioth 'kernel' project

2017-05-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2017-05-17 at 15:51 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Finally, Ian Campbell has two accounts as members and I would like to > remove the guest account (ijc-guest). Ack. In fact my ijc-guest hat has just removed himself from the project. It took a small leap of faith that clicking the

Bug#860808: ocfs2 blocks jbd2

2017-05-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2017-05-13 at 08:41 -0500, Russell Mosemann wrote: > package: src:linux > Version: 4.9.18-1~bpo8+1 > Severity: important >   > Is anyone from ocfs2 addressing these bugs? They won't see this message because you haven't sent it to them. Please take this directly to the ocfs2-devel mailing

Bug#854854: Cherry pick and backport patches for rtc-s35390a (Was: Bug#854854: qcontrol: reboot/poweroff)

2017-04-19 Thread Ian Campbell
Control: retitle -1 Cherry pick and backport patches for rtc-s35390a to Jessie Control: found -1 3.16.39-1+deb8u2 Control: fixed -1 4.6.4-1 stable@ please see the list of requested backports at the end. debian-*: I tried (and succeeded!) to reassign to src:linux and tried (and failed!) to merge

Bug#841144: kernel BUG at /build/linux-Wgpe2M/linux-4.8.11/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:1514!

2017-03-14 Thread Ian Campbell
OCFS2 folks, any thoughts on this crash? On Tue, 2017-01-17 at 02:12 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 13:12 -0600, Russell Mosemann wrote: > [...] > > Jan 15 17:31:03 vhost032 kernel: [ cut here ] > > Jan 15 17:31:03 vhost032 kernel: kernel BUG at > >

Re: Bug#852596: iio-sensor-proxy: spams syslog with an error message every second

2017-01-29 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2017-01-29 at 14:30 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Fri, 2017-01-27 at 22:04 +0100, iqwue Wabv wrote: > > upstream of i-s-p suggests that this bug should be reassigned to kernel  > > package. > > ps. > > said 27.01.2017 on https://github.com/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/issues/134 > >

Bug#852324: x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping

2017-01-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 18:32 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Any ideas, Ian? I'm afraid I'm not so up to speed on Xen things since I changed jobs last year, looks like people from xen-devel are already involved though. Ian.

Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

2016-12-12 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2016-12-10 at 13:41 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Now I don't work on a distro anymore, but I would think that something > like this would be really useful, pointing out exactly what changed is > very important for distro maintainers to determine what they want to do The .symvers

Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

2016-12-09 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 13:33 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: >  > Well I simply tested the outcome. If you have: > > struct blah { >   int x; > }; > int foo(struct blah *blah) > { >   return blah->x; > } > EXPORT(foo); > > $ nm vmlinux | grep __crc_foo > a0cf13a0 A __crc_foo > > Now change

Bug#847154: linux-image-amd64: Disabling vsyscall interface may break docker run

2016-12-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2016-12-06 at 14:17 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > But perhas we should more explicit in this message, e.g.: > > "This breaks (e)glibc 2.13 and earlier, which may still be installed in > a chroot or container environment based on Debian 7, RHEL/CentOS 6 or > earlier versions." That's a

Bug#845611: linux-image-4.8.0-1-marvell: hard drive not detected on LinkStation Pro (LS-GL)

2016-11-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2016-11-25 at 08:56 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 04:24:31PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > Is it possible that there are multiple variants of this one with > > differing numbers of disks? > > > > It's a little tricky to google

Bug#845611: linux-image-4.8.0-1-marvell: hard drive not detected on LinkStation Pro (LS-GL)

2016-11-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2016-11-25 at 08:10 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 07:42:37AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > Assuming orion5x-linkstation.dtsi is correctly relating to your > > platform you would appear to want one of: > >    $ git grep orion5x-linksta

Bug#845611: linux-image-4.8.0-1-marvell: hard drive not detected on LinkStation Pro (LS-GL)

2016-11-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2016-11-24 at 23:24 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: > whereas the new orion5x-linkstation.dtsi contains this code: > > { > status = "okay"; > nr-ports = <1>; > }; A .dtsi is an include file, not the final thing for any given device, for that you need a .dts (which is compiled

Bug#834505: arm64 boot failure with large physical memory range

2016-08-22 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-08-22 at 11:03 +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote: > > > I thought there was a control bit on ARMv8 too which made it cause a > > fault if the code loaded through, stored via, branched to etc an > > address with bits set between the maximum physical address bit and the > > bits

Bug#834505: arm64 boot failure with large physical memory range

2016-08-21 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2016-08-21 at 11:42 +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote: >  > You're not wrong, but unfortunately the ability to write semi-portable > code left the planet over a decade ago. For clarification - the > problem is not with regards to code written specifically for arm64 and > not verified with

Bug#833561: arm64: dtbs no longer installed in vendor subdir

2016-08-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2016-08-06 at 11:14 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2016-08-05 at 18:37 -0700, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > > I ran dtbs_install manually to verify: > > > > ARCH=arm64 make  -n -C debian/build/build_arm64_none_arm64 > > dtbs_install INSTALL_DTBS_PA

Bug#833561: arm64: dtbs no longer installed in vendor subdir

2016-08-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2016-08-05 at 18:37 -0700, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I ran dtbs_install manually to verify: > > ARCH=arm64 make  -n -C debian/build/build_arm64_none_arm64 > dtbs_install INSTALL_DTBS_PATH=/home/tbm/debian/linux-4.7~rc7/x > echo '  INSTALL arch/arm64/boot/dts/amd/amd-overdrive.dtb'; mkdir

Bug#830268: linux: please make the build reproducible

2016-07-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2016-07-07 at 20:52 +0200, Reiner Herrmann wrote: > While working on the "reproducible builds" effort [1], we have noticed > that linux could not be built reproducibly. > Since we started varying the shell used for /bin/sh (bash vs. dash), > linux no longer builds reproducibly. OOI what

Re: dtbs_install recursing on subdirs-y and dtbs-subdir leading to race?

2016-03-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 09:04 +, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 08:54:34AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > Where it appears that multiple instance of __dtbs_install_prep have > > been running in parallel at least the apm and arm subdirectories of > >

Bug#813881: linux-image-4.3.0-1-armmp install wrong dtb on Wandboard Quad Rev B1

2016-03-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-03-14 at 10:48 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2016-03-14, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Sun, 2016-02-07 at 19:50 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > >> On 2016-02-06, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > >> > Booting with u-boot-imx requires imx6q-wandboard

dtbs_install recursing on subdirs-y and dtbs-subdir leading to race?

2016-03-16 Thread Ian Campbell
Hello, As part of an automated build of the Debian Linux kernel packages I think we have observed a race (or at least some unexpected extra recursion) in the handling of dtb-subdirs vs subdirs-y in arch/arm64/boot/dts when using make -j. Looking at the log at [0] and removing the unrelated stuff

Bug#813881: linux-image-4.3.0-1-armmp install wrong dtb on Wandboard Quad Rev B1

2016-03-14 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2016-02-07 at 19:50 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2016-02-06, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > > Booting with u-boot-imx requires imx6q-wandboard-revb1.dtb. > > linux-image-4.3.0-1-armmp installs imx6q-wandboard.dtb > > leaving me with a system that will not boot. > > > > With

Bug#812540: Add ARCH_HISI for Lemaker HiKey support

2016-03-13 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2016-03-12 at 09:00 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2016-03-12, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 20:03 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > >> On 2016-03-10, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > >> > * Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org> [2016-01-25 0

Bug#818059: linux-image-4.4.0-1-armmp-lpae: Missing usb-power-supply in DTB for OlinuXino-A20-LIME2

2016-03-13 Thread Ian Campbell
Control: tag -1 +upstream On Sun, 2016-03-13 at 09:17 +0100, Michael Haas wrote: >  > I presume this would need to be fixed upstream in > arch/arm/boot/dts/un7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2.dts > but I don't know where to direct that specific bug report. Please report it (or, better, send a patch) to

Bug#812540: Add ARCH_HISI for Lemaker HiKey support

2016-03-12 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 20:03 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2016-03-10, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org> [2016-01-25 09:57]: > >> I suppose it will need more than just ARCH_HISI. Are you able to > identify > >> the full set of o

Bug#817016: linux-image-4.3.0-1-amd64: ThinkPad X1 Carbon: Boot stalls at "intel_pstate: HWP enabled"

2016-03-07 Thread Ian Campbell
Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110941 On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 07:46 +, Andy Smith wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 4.3.5-1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > Booting this kernel (or the debian-installer latest daily) results in a blank >

Re: Booting uncompressed kernel images

2016-02-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 15:40 -0200, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > Sorry for the delay in my response. In the past couple days I was > confirming with Oracle if my findings (using virt-what, as you > suggested) where right and, indeed, they are supporting Xen HVM right > now. Great! > > So, there's no

Re: Booting uncompressed kernel images

2016-02-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 23:31 -0200, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > > PS I have also found binwalk [2] useful when examining contents of > > compressed kernel > > apt-get install binwalk > > Thanks for the tip - although I got a little bit surprised with so > many dependencies in what should be a simple

Re: Booting uncompressed kernel images

2016-02-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 15:18 -0200, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > Hi Ian, > > On 2 February 2016 at 09:24, Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org> wrote: > > Did you see my other replies on debian-kernel yesterday? There are some > > questions there which it would be useful to know the

Re: Booting uncompressed kernel images

2016-02-01 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 06:03 -0200, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > Hi, > > I have a scenario[1] where the default Linux kernel compressed with XZ > (from Jessie and up) cannot be booted. The first thing that I've tried > was to uncompress it using "extract-linux"[2] and it didn't worked by > the time, so I

Re: Booting uncompressed kernel images

2016-02-01 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 10:06 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 06:03 -0200, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a scenario[1] where the default Linux kernel compressed with XZ > > (from Jessie and up) cannot be booted. The first thing that I've

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2016-02-01 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2016-01-29 at 15:59 +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Ian, > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 02:57:23PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I spent a bit of time investigating this, but sadly I'm not able to > > reproduce the basis failure. > > FWIW it was me who repo

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2016-01-29 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 10:57 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I'm still unable to spot what might have changed between 3.16.7-ckt20- > 1+deb8u2 and 4.3.3-5 though to explain it going away, which I'd still > quite liketo get to the bottom of in order to fix in Jessie. I spent a

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2016-01-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 19:46 +0200, KSB wrote: > > This is actually useful, because it shows that the issue occurs even > > with > > Xen 4.6, which I think rules out a Xen side issue (otherwise we'd have > > had > > lots more reports from 4.4 through to 4.6) and points to a kernel side > > issue

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2016-01-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 20:36 +0200, KSB wrote: > > Do you have a package version which you know to be good? How confident > > are > > you that it is ok (sometimes the problem is intermittent)? > > > > Lastly, is there any chance you upgraded the Xen packages at the same > > time? > > I'm starting

Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi?

2016-01-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 17:59 +0100, Sebastian Reichel wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 05:39:40PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > On Monday 25 January 2016 14:58:27 Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > As I got the impression that support for the RPi was now

Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi?

2016-01-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 17:59 +0100, Sebastian Reichel wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 05:39:40PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > On Monday 25 January 2016 14:58:27 Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > As I got the impression that support for the RPi was now &g

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2016-01-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 20:36 +0200, KSB wrote: > > Do you have a package version which you know to be good? How confident > > are > > you that it is ok (sometimes the problem is intermittent)? > > > > Lastly, is there any chance you upgraded the Xen packages at the same > > time? > > I'm starting

Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi?

2016-01-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 15:46 +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > I wasn't aware that any of the RPi support (for any model) had gone > > upstream. > > It has taken a while, but it seems that major parts are now upstream-ed. > See the changelog mentioned earlier. Great! [...] > As I got the

Bug#784688: Thousands of "xen:balloon: Cannot add additional memory (-17) messages" despite dom0 ballooning disabled

2016-01-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 21:38 +0200, KSB wrote: > Seen this behavior on earlier kernels (i.e. 3.14-2-amd64 pkg 3.14.15-2.) > and seems to be gone at least in 4.3 That's useful info thanks, I've been unable to pinpoint a culprit for this for ages now. Do you have a package version which you know

Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi?

2016-01-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2016-01-16 at 03:22 +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote: > Hi! > > I have a Raspberry Pi 1B, 1B+ and 2B and I'd love to test Debian's 4.4 kernel  > for it. At least it is/was my understanding that the versatile kernel is > meant  > for the Raspberry Pi.  The versatile kernel is meant for ARM

Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi?

2016-01-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 14:56 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 15:46 +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > Thanks for your response :-) > > > > On Monday 25 January 2016 13:23:20 Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > I have a Raspberry Pi 1B, 1B+ and

Bug#812540: Add ARCH_HISI for Lemaker HiKey support

2016-01-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2016-01-24 at 21:21 +0100, Kilian Krause wrote: > Package: linux > Version: 4.3.3-7 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: d-i > > Dear kernel maintainers, > > while trying to get a d-i booted on a Lemaker HiKey, tbm pointed out > that ARCH_HISI is not (yet) activated on linux. > > Please enable

Re: Xen XL blocked on linux-image-4.3.0.1-amd64 4.3.3-5

2016-01-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 10:53 +0100, Torben Schou Jensen wrote: > Something with Xen is unstable since upgrade to kernel 4.3.0.1. This is fixed in 4.3.3-7 I believe as bug #810472. Ian.

Bug#812386: Please enable ARCH_QCOM on arm64

2016-01-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2016-01-23 at 12:00 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Good point. Please enable these for generic QCOM support: Done. > I think this should be good enough for now. I'll open a new bug once > I have hardware if needed. Ack.

Bug#812386: Please enable ARCH_QCOM on arm64

2016-01-23 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 20:57 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Package: linux > Version: 4.4-1~exp1 > Severity: wishlist > > Please enable ARCH_QCOM on arm64. I believe the following options > should be enabled: Done in git. I suppose we will also want some modules added to the udebs? Based on

Re: [PATCH 0/8] debian/linux: extended ARM64 support

2016-01-23 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 22:14 -0200, Ricardo Salveti wrote: > This patch set extend the ARM64 support by including support for the AMD > Overdrive (development platform using the AMD Seattle SoC), making it > supported by d-i and including a basic set of config options that are now > supported by

Bug#810820: linux-image-4.3.0-1-amd64: XEN fails after 7 domU's are started with linux-image-4.3.0-1-amd64 (version 4.3.3-5)

2016-01-20 Thread Ian Campbell
Control: tag -1 +moreinfo On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 17:00 +0200, Kaspars Bogdanovs wrote: > > When booting XEN system (both 4.6 and 4.3) with kernel (linux-image- > 4.3.0-1-amd64, pkg version 4.3.3-5) when started 6 to 7 small domU's, > error messages are thrown: I think there is a reasonable

Bug#809476: Linux 4.4-rc6 fails to boot on QNAP TS-109

2016-01-01 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2015-12-31 at 08:20 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Martin Michlmayr [2015-12-30 16:09]: > > I guess the kernel is uncompressed and overwrites part of the > > ramdisk > > located at 0x80.  I don't really get this part because > > arch/arm/boot/Image is only 6.1 MB

Bug#809083: linux: armhf/armmp: Please enable support for Rockchip platforms

2016-01-01 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2015-12-26 at 18:26 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > +#drivers/crypto/Kconfig: > +CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_ROCKCHIP=m This one didn't seem to exist anywhere in the mainline tree. The rest looks good to me, I intend to apply once I get a chance to build test. Ian.

Bug#807624: armhf: Please enable support for DRA7XX systems (Beagle-x15)

2016-01-01 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 16:04 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Would you consider enabling it even though there are some notable > features not yet working? Seems like there is a sufficiently useful set of stuff which is working, so I think we should. The final change to the generated .config

Bug#797881: QNAP TS-219P II: qcontrol no longer works after upgrading to linux-image-4.1.0-0.bpo.1-kirkwood

2015-12-10 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2015-12-10 at 07:36 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 16:04 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org> [2015-10-04 14:04]: > > > I suspect this is due to the device path for the input node > > changing > >

Bug#797880: QNAP TS-219P II with linux-image-4.1.0-0.bpo.1-kirkwood "loses" one hard disk from the RAID while flashing initramfs, causing read-only remount and dpkg to fail

2015-12-10 Thread Ian Campbell
s the initramfs > with this Linux kernel on my QNAP TS-219P II: > > Ian Campbell added a workaround to flash-kernel 3.52 for this kernel > issue. > > Can you try if 3.52 works for you? If so, I guess it makes sense to > upload 3.52 to backports. I've just uploaded 3.52~bpo8-1 (pending a successful dinstall run). Cheers, Ian.

Bug#797881: QNAP TS-219P II: qcontrol no longer works after upgrading to linux-image-4.1.0-0.bpo.1-kirkwood

2015-12-09 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 16:04 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org> [2015-10-04 14:04]: > > I suspect this is due to the device path for the input node > changing > > from /dev/input/by-path/platform-gpio_keys-event to /dev/input/by > >

Bug#805971: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: [PATCH] Xen domU "unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference"

2015-11-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 13:18 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > > Viktor Dukhovni published a patch on 2015-09-09 at > http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-users/2015-09/txtbaRgWqxpT4 > .txt , > already.  His patch also fixes the "only created %d queues" message: > unpatched it is using

Bug#805885: https://bugs.debian.org/src:linux gives "Internal Server Error"

2015-11-23 Thread Ian Campbell
Package: bugs.debian.org X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org Hi, [ I sent this to owner@, as requested by the error message, in   <1446823766.23065.68.ca...@debian.org>   at Fri, 06 Nov 2015 15:29:26 +, but having not heard back I'm now   filing as a bug against bugs.d.o, I hope

Bug#762634: initramfs-tools: [armhf] mounting rootfs on USB disk fails / some USB host controller drivers missing in initramfs

2015-11-12 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 18:46 -0600, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2014-09-30, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 08:19 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 00:08 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > However, at the moment initramfs-t

Bug#803159: linux: Enable DT support for armel/orion5x arch

2015-11-09 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 11:45 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > Patch appended, to avoid any misunderstanding. >  - 0001 is both OK for sid and jessie >  - 0002 is only necessary for sid, or other 4.x kernel series (e.g. > jessie-backport) Thanks, I'd already set a build going with your first patch and

Bug#804079: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Kernel panic on Xen virtualisation in Debian

2015-11-06 Thread Ian Campbell
Control: found -1 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u5 Control: notfound -1 3.16.7-ckt11-1 Thanks for your report. On Wed, 2015-11-04 at 18:53 +0100, Jan Prunk wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 3.16.7-ckt11-1 >From your text and the screenshot I think this should really be +deb8u5. I've updated the bug

Bug#803159: linux: Enable DT support for armel/orion5x arch

2015-11-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2015-11-06 at 23:53 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > So I think it's now safe to turn on DEBUG_LL_UART_8250 and merge my > patch. Great, thanks for tracking that down.  It's a bit odd that DEBUG_LL_UART_NONE fails (after all it should be doing nothing) but given that this flavour supports a

Bug#799122: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#799122: xen-hypervisor-4.4-amd64: Networking of domUs stops working after a few minutes

2015-11-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2015-11-05 at 19:16 +0100, Arne Klein wrote: > Thank you. The tested versions on dom0 and domU in which the problem > occurs are: > 4.1.3-1~bpo8+1 > 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u5 I've asked around upstream and it was suggested that "xen-netback: require fewer guest Rx slots when not using GSO"

Bug#799122: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#799122: xen-hypervisor-4.4-amd64: Networking of domUs stops working after a few minutes

2015-11-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2015-11-06 at 11:23 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > Please could you try 4.3~rc7-1~exp1 from experimental in dom0 and see > if that helps? 4.3-1~exp1 was just uploaded, so you may as well try that instead. Thanks, Ian.

Bug#803159: linux: Enable DT support for armel/orion5x arch

2015-11-05 Thread Ian Campbell
Control: tag -1 +moreinfo On Fri, 2015-11-06 at 01:27 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > Dear Ian, > > Thanks for your comments! > > > Given this and the discussions > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2015/10/msg00221.html > > I wonder how useful it turns out to be to apply this patch. > > 1.

Bug#803159: linux: Enable DT support for armel/orion5x arch

2015-11-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 23:20 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > Package: linux > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > There're some updates for armel/orion5x in Linux 4.3 kernel: >   - Buffalo Linkstation LS-WTGL: DT support newly added >   - Buffalo Linkstation LS-WSGL: converted to DT > > But

Bug#788315: same problem in stretch

2015-10-11 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2015-10-11 at 09:58 +0200, Heiko Ernst wrote: > can someone add this bug to stretch ? Please write another mail to 788...@bugs.debian.org with this directive, before any other text (including quotes "On Sun... wrote" etc): Control: found -1 e.g. if you tested 4.1.6-1 then write:

Bug#797881: QNAP TS-219P II: qcontrol no longer works after upgrading to linux-image-4.1.0-0.bpo.1-kirkwood

2015-10-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2015-10-04 at 22:21 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2015-10-04 at 14:04 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-09-03 at 12:20 +0200, Robert Schlabbach wrote: > > > Package: linux-image-4.1.0-0.bpo.1-kirkwood > > > Version: 4.1.3-1~bpo8+1 > > >

Bug#800085: linux-image-4.1.0-2-armmp: The ethernet fails to come up on my Allwinner A10 device.

2015-10-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2015-09-27 at 02:55 +0200, Gianluca Renzi wrote: > Sorry but I don't agree with you. Supposing the allwinner A10 device > need some voltage regulator drivers to be enabled in the kernel to > have some devices in a working state, this not hurts some other > devices that have some other

Bug#800085: linux-image-4.1.0-2-armmp: The ethernet fails to come up on my Allwinner A10 device.

2015-10-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2015-09-26 at 18:04 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: tag -1 - newcomer > Control: tag -1 moreinfo > > On Sat, 2015-09-26 at 12:10 -0400, Matthew Schneider wrote: > > Package: src:linux > > Version: 4.1.6-1 > > Severity: important > > Tags: newcomer > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > >

Bug#799853: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen kernel BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request

2015-10-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 11:51 +0200, Zdeněk Bělehrádek wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.32-48squeeze10 I'm afraid that with Squeeze being old-old-stable at this point your best bet is going to be to upgrade at least the kernel if not the whole distro to something > Squeeze. I'd suggest

Bug#800085: linux-image-4.1.0-2-armmp: The ethernet fails to come up on my Allwinner A10 device.

2015-10-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2015-10-04 at 11:17 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > I agree, the URL suggests: > > CONFIG_REGULATOR_DEBUG=y > > CONFIG_REGULATOR_VIRTUAL_CONSUMER=y > > CONFIG_REGULATOR_USERSPACE_CONSUMER=y > > CONFIG_PWM_SUN4I=y > [...] > My best guess is that on

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