Bug#1059676: kernel FTBFS on hppa

2024-01-16 Thread Helge Deller
This kernel bug is now fixed, since binutils will now support hppa64 binaries as well. See bz #1059674

Bug#1059676: kernel FTBFS on hppa

2023-12-29 Thread Helge Deller
Package: linux Tags: hppa, ftbfs Version: 6.6.8-1 Depends: 1059674 Kernel FTBFS on hppa. Problem is, that on hppa the 32-bit strip and 32-bit objdump binaries can't process hppa 64-bit objects. Log shows, e.g.: make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/deller/build/linux/linux-6.6.8' dh_strip

Bug#1040981: klibc-utils: segfault executing armhf binaries under qemu-user

2023-07-13 Thread Helge Deller
On 7/14/23 01:56, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Dixi quod… My guess here is that it’s, as usual, the fault of qemu-user, Strong evidence for that: doesn’t look like it even executes one bit of klibc code: $ qemu-arm-static -d cpu ./fstype --help qemu: uncaught target signal 11 (Segmentation fault)

Bug#1040981: klibc-utils: Segmentation fault while executin klibc binaries in armhf architecture under qemu-user

2023-07-13 Thread Helge Deller
Can you check if this patch fixes the problem: https://patchew.org/QEMU/mvmpm55qnno@suse.de/ (linux-user: make sure brk(0) returns a page-aligned value, from Andreas Schwab) Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Thorsten Glaser Datum: 14.07.23 00:48 (GMT+01:00) An:

Bug#1036818: linux on armel/armhf: Perl library unable to access get CPU info from /proc/cpu or kstat

2023-05-27 Thread Helge Deller
Just wondering / guessing: Are the ARM machines on ci.debian.net (ci-worker-arm??-??) physical machines, or are they running on qemu-user VMs? If they run qemu, this bug report https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1024653 might be similiar. If so, then qemu probably needs fixing

Bug#1027915: systemd requires /run to be mounted with a minimum size of 20MB

2023-01-24 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Helmut, On 1/24/23 06:27, Helmut Grohne wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 10:48:27PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote: --- ./init.org 2023-01-23 21:40:33.079738389 + +++ ./init 2023-01-23 21:40:45.983861851 + @@ -205,6 +205,15 @@ else resume=${RESUME:-} fi +if [ -z "${RU

Bug#1027915: systemd requires /run to be mounted with a minimum size of 20MB

2023-01-23 Thread Helge Deller
). Please apply to the next initramfs-tools update. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller diff -up ./init.org ./init --- ./init.org 2023-01-23 21:40:33.079738389 + +++ ./init 2023-01-23 21:40:45.983861851 + @@ -205,6 +205,15 @@ else resume=${RESUME:-} fi +if [ -z "${RUNSIZE}" ] || [[

Bug#999915: (no subject)

2023-01-23 Thread Helge Deller
I think the patch I sent in #1027915 should fix this issue: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1027915#24

Bug#1027915: systemd requires /run to be mounted with a minimum size of 20MB

2023-01-04 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Helmut, On 1/4/23 14:26, Helmut Grohne wrote: On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 02:08:00PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote: My suggestion: Please check that the /run mountpoint is mounted with at least 20MB, independend of the installed RAM memory in the machine... Your suggestion makes sense

Bug#959768: [PATCH] initramfs-tools/hook-functions: Fix libgcc_s.so.1 dependency

2020-09-08 Thread Helge Deller
>> Can you check whether the benh/libgcc_s branch works for you? > Yes, I can confirm that this fixes the issue for me. Ben, could you push out a new initramfs-tools package with this fix soon? Everytime I update the kernel package it fails to create the initrd... Helge

Re: How to define kernel meta-package successor?

2020-06-28 Thread Helge Deller
* Ben Hutchings : > On Fri, 2020-05-29 at 18:02 +0200, Helge Deller wrote: > [...] > > How can I flag the "linux-image-parisc" meta-package to become a successor > > of the > > "linux-image-parisc-smp" meta-package (e.g. Provides: > > lin

How to define kernel meta-package successor?

2020-05-29 Thread Helge Deller
In the past we had on hppa/parisc up to four debian kernel variants, for 32- and 64-bit kernels, with and without SMP: linux-image-parisc linux-image-parisc-smp linux-image-parisc64 linux-image-parisc64-smp Then we got live-patching working on the hppa kernels, which made extra SMP kernels

Bug#959768: [PATCH] initramfs-tools/hook-functions: Fix libgcc_s.so.1 dependency

2020-05-27 Thread Helge Deller
hook functions in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/btrfs. Tested on hppa. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Noticed-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=959768 Fixes: f2ac13e8881f ("hook-functions: copy_exec: Copy libgcc_s.so.0 along with libpthre

Bug#961299: [PATCH] Don't run dh_strip on vmlinuz

2020-05-25 Thread Helge Deller
The debian kernel build switched to use debhelper compatibility level 12 with this commit: commit 59a5af36cbf1cc01ef48b91719f999a699d99fab Author: Ben Hutchings Date: Sun Apr 19 19:49:03 2020 +0100 debhelper started complaining about level 9, so it's time to upgrade again. This change

Bug#961299: Acknowledgement (FTBFS: debhelper compatibility level 12 breaks linux kernel build on hppa/parisc)

2020-05-23 Thread Helge Deller
It turns out, that changing dh_strip --no-automatic-dbgsym -Xvmlinux to dh_strip --no-automatic-dbgsym -Xvmlinux -Xvmlinuz in debian/rules.real fixes the build. I added some tracing code and this shows that in former compat level 9, the strip command is never executed on the

Bug#961299: FTBFS: debhelper compatibility level 12 breaks linux kernel build on hppa/parisc

2020-05-22 Thread Helge Deller
Package: linux Version: 5.6.7-1 Severity: important Tags: ftbfs The Debian Linux kernel fails to build from source for all kernels > 5.5.17-1, as can be seen here: https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=linux=hppa During build a 32-bit Linux kernel and a 64-bit Linux kernel is built. The

Bug#959070: klibc-utils: fstype falsely claims to need an executable stack

2020-04-29 Thread Helge Deller
On 29.04.20 15:36, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: tag -1 upstream fixed-upstream patch > > On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 14:12 +1000, Russell Coker wrote: >> Package: klibc-utils >> Version: 2.0.7-1 >> Severity: normal >> >> root@sevm:~/pol# /usr/lib/klibc/bin/fstype < /dev/sda2 >> Segmentation fault >>

Bug#864453: fanotify07 LTP testcase hangs process

2017-06-18 Thread Helge Deller
On 12.06.2017 16:58, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 21:23 +0200, Helge Deller wrote: >> Can you backport at least the commit 05f0e38724e8 ? > > This appears to depend on commit 9385a84d7e1f which looks hard to backport. Ben, if it's too much work, maybe just don't

Bug#864453: fanotify07 LTP testcase hangs process

2017-06-08 Thread Helge Deller
Package: linux Version: 4.9.30 The LTP testcase fanotify07 creates hanging processes with debian kernel 4.9.30 on the hppa platform. In the source code of LTP's fanotify07.c testcase one can read: * Kernel crashes should be fixed by: * 96d41019e3ac "fanotify: fix list corruption in

Bug#837588: vmlinux in linux-image packages is unstripped

2016-10-01 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Ben, On 30.09.2016 23:20, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 23:09 +0200, Helge Deller wrote: >> On 27.09.2016 21:07, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 14:48 +0200, Helge Deller wrote: >>>> On 23.09.2016 05:39, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>

Bug#837588: vmlinux in linux-image packages is unstripped

2016-09-27 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Ben, On 27.09.2016 21:07, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 14:48 +0200, Helge Deller wrote: >> On 23.09.2016 05:39, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> >>> I pushed a fix to the sid branch which I've tested on a powerpc >>> porterbox. >> >> The

Bug#837588: vmlinux in linux-image packages is unstripped

2016-09-27 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Ben, On 23.09.2016 05:39, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I pushed a fix to the sid branch which I've tested on a powerpc > porterbox. The addition of dh_strip --no-automatic-dbgsym broke the 64bit parisc/hppa kernel build: dh_strip --no-automatic-dbgsym

Bug#837588: hppa: Please disable CONFIG_FTRACE for hppa architecture

2016-09-22 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Ben, On 19.09.2016 20:56, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 20:50 +0200, Helge Deller wrote: >> On 19.09.2016 19:41, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> On Mon, 2016-09-12 at 20:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>>> On Mon, 2016-09-12 at 18:17 +0200, Helge Deller

Bug#837588: hppa: Please disable CONFIG_FTRACE for hppa architecture

2016-09-19 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Ben, On 19.09.2016 19:41, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2016-09-12 at 20:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Mon, 2016-09-12 at 18:17 +0200, Helge Deller wrote: >>> So, can you please deactivate CONFIG_FTRACE completely for 32- and >>> 64bit hppa configs?

Bug#837588: hppa: Please disable CONFIG_FTRACE for hppa architecture

2016-09-12 Thread Helge Deller
Package: linux Version: 4.7.2-1 Severity: important We sadly will need to disable CONFIG_FTRACE for hppa architecture completely for now. The problem is, that gcc creates lots of overhead when adding the code for the mcount call (minimum 16 bytes per function, plus two relocation symbol

Re: linux 4.6 FTBFS on alpha

2016-05-04 Thread Helge Deller
On 05.05.2016 03:17, Ben Hutchings wrote: > There's a silly type error in an alpha-specific module that now breaks > the build: > > /«PKGBUILDDIR»/fs/binfmt_em86.c: In function 'load_em86': > /«PKGBUILDDIR»/fs/binfmt_em86.c:73:35: error: passing argument 2 of > 'copy_strings_kernel' from

Re: linux 4.6 FTBFS on hppa

2016-05-04 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Ben, On 05.05.2016 03:29, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Building linux 4.6~rc5-1~exp1 on hppa failed with: > > hppa64-linux-gnu-ld: net/built-in.o(.init.text+0x51c): cannot reach > register_net_sysctl > net/built-in.o: In function `sysctl_core_init': > net/core/sysctl_net_core.o:(.init.text+0x51c):

Re: [PATCH] Fix hppa kernel crash at boot in block/blk-merge.c

2016-04-14 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Ben, On 14.04.2016 00:48, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 18:23 +0100, Helge Deller wrote: >> Since kernel 4.3 we have a problem on hppa that it crashes at bootup >> during the SCSI drive detection. >> There are multiple threads about this issue and this

[PATCH] Fix hppa kernel crash at boot in block/blk-merge.c

2016-03-10 Thread Helge Deller
Since kernel 4.3 we have a problem on hppa that it crashes at bootup during the SCSI drive detection. There are multiple threads about this issue and this link is maybe a good start: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8402441/. Now, after quite some time, we could identify what's going wrong. The

Bug#770102: PATCH: fix packaging the hppa kernel package

2014-11-18 Thread Helge Deller
Source: linux Version: 3.16.7-2 Severity: important Tags: patch Dear debian kernel maintainers, please apply the attached patch to the debian kernel sources for the next upload. It fixes this error when building and packaging the debian hppa kernel: ... kernel-wedge install-files 3.16.0-4 ...

Bug#768297: fix udeb packaging on hppa

2014-11-06 Thread Helge Deller
Source: linux Version: 3.16.0-4 Severity: important Tags: patch This is a follow-up on Bug#766793. I'm not sure if I tested something wrong when I opened Bug#766793, but now while packaging the udeb packages we get this error: kernel-wedge install-files 3.16.0-4 install -D -m 644

Bug#766635: kernel patch for hppa architecture

2014-10-24 Thread Helge Deller
they will all have distinct values to fit into a switch). Committed as the only solution we possibly have here. commit 1f25df2eff5b25f52c139d3ff31bc883eee9a0ab Author: Helge Deller del...@gmx.de Date: Fri Oct 10 22:20:17 2014 +0200 parisc: Reduce SIGRTMIN from 37 to 32 to behave like other Linux

Bug#764524: Bluetooth support on HPPA kernel (with patch)

2014-10-08 Thread Helge Deller
Package: linux Version: 3.16 Severity: bug Tags: patch I just noticed during an apt-get install gnome-core run, that hppa lacks the bluetooth stack. The problem is, that gnome pulls in the bluez package which then fails to install, because the kernel lacks bluetooth support. In the end, I

Bug#762390: Patch for hppa arch

2014-09-24 Thread Helge Deller
could you please temporarily add this hppa-specific patch to the debian kernel sources? ... diff --git a/arch/parisc/Makefile b/arch/parisc/Makefile index 7187664..5db8882 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/Makefile +++ b/arch/parisc/Makefile @@ -48,7 +48,12 @@ cflags-y := -pipe # These flags should

Bug#762390: Patch for hppa arch

2014-09-22 Thread Helge Deller
On 09/22/2014 09:24 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: diff --git a/arch/parisc/Makefile b/arch/parisc/Makefile --- a/arch/parisc/Makefile +++ b/arch/parisc/Makefile # These flags should be implied by an hppa-linux configuration, but they # are not in gcc 3.2. -cflags-y += -mno-space-regs

Bug#762390: Patch for hppa arch

2014-09-21 Thread Helge Deller
Package: linux Version: 3.16.3-2 Severity: bug Tags: patch Dear Debian Kernel maintainers, could you please temporarily add this hppa-specific patch to the debian kernel sources? Currently the 64bit hppa kernel gets miscompiled by gcc-4.8 and as such it will not boot. The attached patch fixes

Bug#747482: Add IPMI drivers to 64bit parisc kernel

2014-05-09 Thread Helge Deller
Package: linux Version: 3.14 Severity: bug Tags: patch 64bit (but not 32bit) parisc machines (like the C8000) do provide a BMC with IPMI support. This patchs adds IPMI support to the 64bit debian kernel. Please apply to the next kernel. Thanks, Helge diff -up

Bug#746506: add xfs udeb for hppa kernel [patch attached]

2014-04-30 Thread Helge Deller
Package: linux Version: 3.14 Severity: bug Tags: patch In older kernels on parisc we had troubles linking the kernel modules for the xfs filesystem because some symbols could then not be resolved due to the size of the xfs module. That was probably the reason, why xfs was not provided as udeb

Bug#745731: initialize FSTYPE variable

2014-04-24 Thread Helge Deller
unknown before calling fstype. That way the program logic will continue correctly if something with the fstype program is wrong. Attached script fixes this. Please apply. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller del...@gmx.de diff -up ./scripts/functions.org ./scripts/functions --- ./scripts/functions.org 2014

Bug#738487: hppa patch for ATI FireGL in C8000 workstation

2014-02-18 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Ben, On 02/10/2014 02:15 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: You could add a new drm-modules udeb, but I suggest you reuse the name fb-modules which is already defined in debian/installer/package-list. The list of modules is very much architecture-specific so add it under

Bug#738487: hppa patch for ATI FireGL in C8000 workstation

2014-02-09 Thread Helge Deller
Package: linux Version: 3.13 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello, this is a follow-up to bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=721191 In that bugzilla I originally asked to add the following config entries to ./debian/config/hppa/config.parisc64-smp: +# and for ATI FireGL DRM

Bug#733895: kernel 3.12 FTBFS and parisc patches

2014-01-01 Thread Helge Deller
Package: linux Version: 3.12 Severity: bug Tags: patch In Bug# 721191 we removed the parisc-smp and parisc64 (non-SMP) kernel variants. Sadly I forgot to correct the kernel versions in the debian/installer/hppa/kernel-versions file, so that the final build stage failed because it tried to

Bug#733897: parisc patch for kernel 3.13

2014-01-01 Thread Helge Deller
Package: linux Version: 3.13 Severity: bug Tags: patch As soon as the debian kernel will start with kernel 3.13, please remove the CONFIG_MLONGCALLS=y option as it's then not any longer needed. The option is still needed in the = 3.12 kernel. (This is a follow-up on Bug# 721191) Index:

Bug#721191: linux: patch for parisc/hppa architecture

2013-12-08 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Ben, On 12/06/2013 04:01 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 22:26 +0200, Helge Deller wrote: After the request to reduce the kernels to e.g. SMP-only, my thought was to provide only 32bit-UP and 64bit SMP kernels. To be sure I asked on the parisc mailing list. The whole thread

Bug#721191: linux: patch for parisc/hppa architecture

2013-09-08 Thread Helge Deller
On 09/08/2013 04:19 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:53:58PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote: On 08/28/2013 11:35 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: Looks reasonable. But please send further changes to remove the non-smp kernels. I can do that. Do you have some background on this request

Bug#721191: linux: patch for parisc/hppa architecture

2013-09-08 Thread Helge Deller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/08/2013 06:30 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2013-08-28 at 23:22 +0200, Helge Deller wrote: +# For the IDE CDROM in C8000 workstation +CONFIG_IDE=m +CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE=m Why not CONFIG_PATA_SIL680 instead? I will test if this works

Bug#721191: linux: patch for parisc/hppa architecture

2013-08-28 Thread Helge Deller
/installer/hppa/modules/hppa/pata-modules I added an entry for the siimage module (for the IDE CDROM). Maybe it would be better, if this entry could be moved to the generic pata-modules file instead? But I leave this decision up to you... Thanks a lot in advance, Helge Deller (PARISC (upstream) Linux

Bug#721191: linux: patch for parisc/hppa architecture

2013-08-28 Thread Helge Deller
On 08/28/2013 11:35 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:22:09PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote: It would be nice, if you could apply this patch to your linux source code tree. Looks reasonable. But please send further changes to remove the non-smp kernels. I can do that. Do you

Bug#561203: threads and fork on machine with VIPT-WB cache

2010-04-08 Thread Helge Deller
On 04/02/2010 09:35 PM, John David Anglin wrote: On Fri, 02 Apr 2010, NIIBE Yutaka wrote: NIIBE Yutaka wrote: To have same semantics as other archs, I think that VIPT-WB cache machine should have cache flush at ptep_set_wrprotect, so that memory of the page has up-to-date data. Yes, it

Bug#539215: grave or important ?

2009-09-22 Thread Helge Deller
Hmm... I just marked this bug grave, but I'm not sure if it should be important instead. Please advise... Fact is, that the hppa 2.6.26-2 kernel, as it's currently available, has a major bug, which can easily hang and DOS the full machine under various loads. I can reproduce this bug with my

Bug#539378: [hppa]: fails to load nfs module: Global Offset Table

2009-07-31 Thread Helge Deller
On 07/31/2009 09:03 PM, John David Anglin wrote: Only 32-bit targets have the 14-bit signed immediate offset (0x3fff), which becomes a 13-bit limit when loading positive offsets e.g. +0x1fff or 1023 GOT slots. Can't we offset the table and double the number of entries? Dave, Can you explain

Bug#539378: [hppa]: fails to load nfs module: Global Offset Table overflow

2009-07-31 Thread Helge Deller
On 07/31/2009 08:49 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote: [...] However, on 64-bit the long format of ldd has a 16-bit signed immediate offset (0x), meaning it can reach +0x7fff e.g. 4095 GOT slots. Do you have the time to test something out? * Make this conditional on 32-bit vs. 64-bit and allow for

Bug#539378: [hppa]: fails to load nfs module: Global Offset Table

2009-07-31 Thread Helge Deller
5592 1 nfs sunrpc382312 3 nfs,lockd,nfs_acl msdos 15032 0 fat91248 1 msdos Helge parisc: module.c - fix GOT table overflow with large kernel modules on 64 bit kernels Signed-off-by: Helge Deller del...@gmx.de diff --git a/arch/parisc

Bug#401439: parisc: xfs module loading bug

2009-01-06 Thread Helge Deller
Patches which solves the xfs loading bug on parisc has been accepted upstream. Mainstream Kernel 2.6.29 will contain the fix. Description of the problem: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=123055968113465w=2 Needed patches which were accepted upstream: a) module: fix module loading failure of

Bug#401439: parisc: xfs module loading bug

2009-01-06 Thread Helge Deller
dann frazier wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 09:26:33AM -0700, dann frazier wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:08:39AM +0100, Helge Deller wrote: Patches which solves the xfs loading bug on parisc has been accepted upstream. Mainstream Kernel 2.6.29 will contain the fix. Description

Bug#401439: hppa/xfs

2008-12-29 Thread Helge Deller
I've just sent two patches which do solve this problem for review to Linux kernel mailing list. Description of the problem: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=123055968113465w=2 Two patches: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=123055978413612w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=123055986413742w=2

Bug#416208: Installation report HP-715/64 (HIL)

2008-12-24 Thread Helge Deller
Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:35:51PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote: Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: The boot-kernel (2.6.18) does not detect this keyboard on the HIL bus. It seems the needed .config values are not set when it was built. To solve this problem, the boot kernel

Bug#416208: Installation report HP-715/64 (HIL)

2008-12-23 Thread Helge Deller
Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: The boot-kernel (2.6.18) does not detect this keyboard on the HIL bus. It seems the needed .config values are not set when it was built. To solve this problem, the boot kernel needs the CONFIG_KEYBOARD_HIL_OLD=y option set. Additionally, all other HIL options should