Bug#890424: Patches for Meltdown on Power

2018-02-14 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Source: linux Source-Version: 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 Tags: patch -- Hi, beginning January a patch series has been sent on the LKML which include a patch to prevent the Meltdown vulnerability on some Power machines : https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/8/649 This series has been upstreamed and a few days ago, t

Bug#891249: linux: unstable kernel/data corruption on ppc64el

2018-02-26 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Hi, I got this as well, not immediatly though but adding some parallelization to the build helped. I'll look into this as well. F. On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 19:52:35 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Source: linux > Version: 4.9.82-1+deb9u2 > Severity: critical > Justification: causes serious data corrup

Bug#891249: linux: unstable kernel/data corruption on ppc64el

2018-02-26 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
b9u2 and I could do some heavy linux compilation without issue. The latest upstream 4.9.84 has that fix. F. On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:33:56 +0100, Frédéric Bonnard wrote: > Hi, > I got this as well, not immediatly though but adding some > parallelization to the build helped. I'll look

Re: Bug#1033058: Booting mini.iso : kernel hangs on ppc64el

2023-03-22 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Thanks Cyril. Another important detail ... I only get that behavior in qemu in graphical mode. On LPARs there is no issue. I didn't try on baremetal so far. F. On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:44:49 +0100 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Frédéric Bonnard (2023-03-17): > > > It would be helpful

Re: Bug#1033058: Booting mini.iso : kernel hangs on ppc64el

2023-03-23 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Hi Cyril! > Could you please guide me into reproducing this issue in QEMU? #987368 > had hints, but at least the openpower.xyz part no longer works (it's no > longer resolving). much simpler actually because in the current case, we won't emulate a full baremetal PowerNV machine. For example, usin

Re: Bug#1033058: Booting mini.iso : kernel hangs on ppc64el

2023-04-12 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Thank you so much Cyril! > That being said, we don't have all modules shipped in the installer, and > some other module might be available and used in the installed system > (e.g. dedicated driver as opposed to fbdev during a graphical install on > amd64), which can explain differences. The bootlo

Unidentified subject!

2019-07-03 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Hi Debian Kernel Team, when can we expect an update of 4.19 for buster in stable-sec ? 4.19.57+ contains a number of interesting security fix on Power :) Thanks! F. pgpMNuKuGRzZm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: about next 4.19 update

2019-07-04 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Thank you again Ben for the quick note, much appreciated. Sorry for bad mail subject. F. July 4, 2019 4:37 PM, "Ben Hutchings" wrote: > On Wed, 2019-07-03 at 17:57 +0200, Frédéric Bonnard wrote: > >> Hi Debian Kernel Team, >> when can we expect an update of 4

Bug#785065: #785065: is this still relevant ?

2019-03-20 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Hi Ben, I was told that there is no 32b bootstrap code involved, only BE. I understand this problem does not happen on current kernels. May we close this bug? or for more details we can ping Michael. Regards, F. pgpbdRaUHce0b.pgp Description: PGP signature pgpxxiNqfZeE7.pgp Description: PGP s

stable-p-u and P9 security patches

2019-04-12 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Hi, several patches have been pushed upstream for next in 4.9.y linux kernel concerning additional Spectre/Meltdown fixes on P9 for the new DD2.3 processor revision : https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/commit/?id=45d80ddf5e0c5fa43507709537559d1ed4583e9d I gues

Re: stable-p-u and P9 security patches

2019-04-15 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Ok, thank you Ben. F. pgpubtBioEEOT.pgp Description: PGP signature