> pasting from #guix > > <francis7> mark_weaver, can you (and also inform others of this) check > what it says on https://libreboot.org/faq/#epochfail > <francis7> Quote: "This seems to be an issue in Linux kernel version > 4.3 and higher, though it may also affect older releases. We know that > it does not affect Linux kernel version 3.13 (the one used in Trisquel > 7, which many libreboot developers and users use). A bisect of the > upstream linux kernel Git repository is in order, so that we can find > out which commit introduced this issue."
See also http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22274#38 which confirms that this happens sometime between Linux-Libre 4.2.5 and 4.3.3 so that narrows things down a bit.