Generating a cloud / VM kernel package

Dear Kernel maintainers, As you may know, it's been years that Ubuntu is shipping a kernel designed for the cloud. Such a kernel is simply a version of the kernel that is stripped down for running on VMs. The point here is that VMs do not need all the drivers that we typically build for the

Re: Generating a cloud / VM kernel package

Hi, On Sat Aug 26, 2017 at 11:48:22 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Dear Kernel maintainers, > > As you may know, it's been years that Ubuntu is shipping a kernel > designed for the cloud. Such a kernel is simply a version of the kernel > that is stripped down for running on VMs. The point here

Bug#868082: linux-image-4.11.0-1-686: fails to boot on i386 (Soekris net5501)

Control: found -1 linux/4.12.6-1 On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 09:59:38 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 22:27:10 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > > [...] > > If you add 'earlyprintk=ttyS0' to the kernel command line and delete > > 'quiet', does it log anything? > > Hello Ben, > thanks for

Processed: Re: Bug#868082: linux-image-4.11.0-1-686: fails to boot on i386 (Soekris net5501)

Processing control commands: > found -1 linux/4.12.6-1 Bug #868082 [src:linux] linux-image-4.11.0-1-686: fails to boot on i386 (Soekris net5501) Marked as found in versions linux/4.12.6-1. -- 868082: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=868082 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact

Bug#870185: armel/marvell kernel size

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 2:55 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 01:22 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > > Oh I see, that adds section (1 MiB) alignment in several places. > Surprisingly, the padding isn't completely zero-filled, so it inflates > the compressed

Bug#870185: armel/marvell kernel size

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 1:27 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 2:55 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> For the size check, you're mostly duplicating the existing check_size() >> function. It would be preferable to have a single function

Re: Generating a cloud / VM kernel package

On Sat, 2017-08-26 at 11:48 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Dear Kernel maintainers, > > As you may know, it's been years that Ubuntu is shipping a kernel > designed for the cloud. Such a kernel is simply a version of the kernel > that is stripped down for running on VMs. The point here is that

Bug#847570: linux-image-4.9.0-rc8-amd64-unsigned: AMDGPU not build with support for GCN1.0 and GCN1.1 VGAs

Package: linux-image-4.13.0-rc5-amd64 Version: 4.13~rc5-1~exp1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Dear maintainers, I have an AMD Radeon R9 290, and I'd like to use the amdgpu driver (= vulkan support) without having to recompile the kernel. As Ferdinand Pöll told before: Since 4.9, linux

Re: Generating a cloud / VM kernel package

On Sat, 2017-08-26 at 12:15 +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: [...] > Thomas, can you elaborate why you think this a good idea? Is this about > boot time of the kernel image? The thing I really do not want to have is > additional kernel source uploads to the archive for just those cloud > kernel

Bug#872664: linux-image-4.9.0-3-686-pae: Resume from hibernate fails on Thinkpad T60

I tried to find the problem, and performed some tests found on https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt in »a) Test modes of hibernation«: I ran all off (one by one): echo freezer > /sys/power/pm_test echo devices > /sys/power/pm_test echo platform >

Please backport 4.12.6-1 for thinkpad x201 user

Dear kernel maintainers, Please kindly help to backport kernel 4.12.6-1, which hits testing already, and helps thinkpad x201 user according to #859639 [0]. Thank you! [0] https://bugs.debian.org/859639#30 Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1