Understood. Regarding IB-related patches, feel free to add them to the test kernel. I will attempt to build and execute InfiniBand stress tests to see if anything breaks. I’ll also check for tainted kernel messages. It’s the best I can do without full Orabug description details.
> On Sep 24, 2025, at 9:14 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2025-09-24 at 08:47 -0700, Tony Rodriguez wrote: >> Yes, I am aware of the Oracle UEK patch location on the Internet. Just >> unsure which >> UEK and NON-UEK related patches are cherry-picked and added into the Debian >> sparc64 kernel? > > I have not cherry-picked any patches into the Debian kernel yet. Adding > custom patches > to the Debian kernel is tedious and takes some time until they get accepted > which is > why I prefer getting those patches upstreamed as quickly as possible. > > For testing, I am just building test kernels for anyone to play with. > >> Also, from my understanding, not all of the UEK patches are added into the >> Debian kernel >> yet. Is that correct? > > None of them are. > >> Regarding a newer ISO with a test kernel, just wondering when that may >> happen time line >> wise? 30 days, 60 days, after several months, next Debian version release, >> etc? Once >> again, I am new to Debian release schedule procedures and timelines. > > For any change to land in an installation ISO, it has be added to the Debian > kernel first. > > That happens through salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux > > Once a patch has landed there, a new kernel package has to be released and > once that has > been built and published into the repositories, I have to rebuilt the > debian-installer > package and then use that to build a new Debian installation ISO. > > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer > `. `' Physicist > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
