Re: PCMCIA support in boot kernel?

1995-12-15 Thread Simon Shapiro
I'll try to add PCMCIA support to the follow-up release of 1.3.47. 47 is already stable and I'd rather not de-stabilize it. It will be released tonight or tomorrow. Any volunteers to check it as I have no way to test it. Also, I have a PCMCIA 130 MB disk. I have written UnixWare drivers for it

Re[2]: Linux Kernel 1.3.47 Uploaded

1995-12-20 Thread ~hiTomPrice . Andrew . Howell . at
__ Reply Separator _ Subject: Re: Linux Kernel 1.3.47 Uploaded Author: "mitchell"@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@MAILGW at DECPostmaster Date:20/12/95 3:31 PM On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Simon Shapiro wrote: >> 2. I'd like

Re: The PCMCIA and kernel packages

1996-06-16 Thread Brian Mays
Okay. I have created a new version of the pcmcia-cs package and am currently uploading it. Here is a list of the files it creates: pcmcia-cs-1.3.100_2.8.16-1_i386.deb The binary version of the package. It includes the modules compiled for kernel version 1.3.100 and all of the

Re: 2.0 kernel for Debian 1.1?

1996-06-17 Thread Bruce Perens
I put the 2.0 kernel packages in the release yesterday evening. Bruce

Bug#4481: Kernel-related dd bug

1996-09-12 Thread Nikhil Nair
Package: fileutils Version: 3.12-4 Under a recent kernel, dd seems to produce spurious extra output *only* if stdout isn't redirected ... $ echo 'This is a test.' | dd of=/tmp/testing bs=10k conv=sync 0+1 records in 1+0 records out $ wc /tmp/testing 1 5 10240 /tmp/

kernel header files : problems (yes, again)

1997-05-28 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
hy. ok, i have libc5-dev installed without changing anything with the header files. and i have the current kernel source and headers installed. i'm kompiling a program, that needs to access current kernel headers (isdnutils), so i compile it with -I/usr/src/linux/include . the problem :

Re: Linux kernel hardening - link restrictions

2012-03-01 Thread Kees Cook
-image.NEWS (revision 18757) > +++ debian/linux-image.NEWS (working copy) > @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ > +linux-latest (44) unstable; urgency=low > + > + * The new kernel version includes security restrictions on links, which > +are enabled by default. These are specified in >

Re: Linux kernel hardening - link restrictions

2012-03-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
+ debian/linux-image.NEWS (working copy) > @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ > +linux-latest (44) unstable; urgency=low > + > + * The new kernel version includes security restrictions on links, which > +are enabled by default. These are specified in > +Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt in the

Re: Linux kernel hardening - link restrictions

2012-03-01 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 05:11:58AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > + * The new kernel version includes security restrictions on links, which > +are enabled by default. These are specified in > +Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt in the linux-doc-3.2 and linux-source-3.2 > +packag

Re: Linux kernel hardening - link restrictions

2012-03-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 2. März 2012, Kees Cook wrote: > > + * The new kernel version includes security restrictions on links, > > +These restrictions may cause some legitimate programs to fail. > > +In particular, if the 'at' package is installed, you should either:

Re: Linux kernel hardening - link restrictions

2012-03-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 07:43 +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 05:11:58AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > + * The new kernel version includes security restrictions on links, which > > +are enabled by default. These are specified in > > +Documenta

Re: Linux kernel hardening - link restrictions

2012-03-03 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 02.03.2012 10:47, Holger Levsen wrote: On Freitag, 2. März 2012, Kees Cook wrote: > + * The new kernel version includes security restrictions on links, > +These restrictions may cause some legitimate programs to fail. > +In particular, if the 'at' package is in

Re: Linux kernel hardening - link restrictions

2012-03-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
= > --- debian/linux-image.NEWS (revision 18757) > +++ debian/linux-image.NEWS (working copy) > @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ > +linux-latest (44) unstable; urgency=low > + > + * The new kernel version includes security restrictions on links, which > +are enabled by default. These are

Re: Linux kernel hardening - link restrictions

2012-03-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
t; > Index: debian/linux-image.NEWS > > === > > --- debian/linux-image.NEWS (revision 18757) > > +++ debian/linux-image.NEWS (working copy) > > @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ > > +linux-latest (44) unstable; urgency=low > > + >

Re: Linux kernel hardening - link restrictions

2012-03-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
ably very limited. I see that audit follow_link messages are generated in the kernel logs when doing completion as root in /tmp, but everything seems to be fine. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Wor

Bug#544539: RFP: Linux Unified Kernel

2009-09-01 Thread Ivan Borzenkov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: Linux Unified Kernel Version: 0.2.4-1 Upstream Author: Insigma li...@insigma.com.cn URL: http://www.longene.org/en/ License: GPL

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-10-19 Thread Rogério Brito
x27;s very visible with Ubuntu's kernel for many releases (since it uses libata). The way that I'm working with that computer is that I'm hand-compiling my own kernels, for the moment, but I'm not always there to support my parents using it and the distribution kernels don't

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-10-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 19 octobre 2009 à 22:54 +0100, Vincent Sanders a écrit : > IDE to libata decision > -- > > Debian will perform this transition using the udev packages in a > similar way to Ubuntu. The Ubuntu developers have offered their > assistance with this transition. When is th

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-10-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:54:47 +0100 Vincent Sanders wrote: > A constructive discussion was held about the outstanding firmware > issues, how the team addresses them and how we might work with upstream > to address our DSFG issues with kernel sources. By chance, did any of that discussion

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-10-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
> to address our DSFG issues with kernel sources. > > By chance, did any of that discussion touch on patching drivers so that > they can load without the firmware? Many Eee PC owners currently have > no DFSG-free option for wifi (short of replacing the card) because > rt2860st

Minimal kernel version raised to 2.6.27

2009-11-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
Due to changes in udev 147, squeeze will not support kernels earlier than 2.6.27. If your packages have code needed to support old kernels, this is the right time to clean it up. This means that lenny->squeeze upgrades will use the same lockstep kernel/udev upgrade method used for etch->

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-20 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Hi, Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you updates us on the various things mentioned in this mail? For instance, as I understand it, most other distro's recently had a release with a 2.6.31 kernel? Do you know if there are plans to have a kernel with backported drivers

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 17:22 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Hi, > > Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you updates us > on the various things mentioned in this mail? > > For instance, as I understand it, most other distro's recently > had a release with a

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> > OSS >> > --- >> > >> > This has been a deprecated kernel interface for some time and will be >> > disabled for squeeze > > Done. > >> > with mechanisms put in place to deal

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 09:24 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > >> > OSS > >> > --- > >> > > >> > This has been a deprecated kernel interface for some time and will be > >> > di

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Mark Brown
throws the data back out to userspace would also work, I guess. > this item refers to. (The existing snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss don't > seem to be good enough.) Specifically since they are in kernel they don't (and can't really) play at all with any userspace ALSA stuff s

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:50:22PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 17:22 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you updates us > > on the various things mentioned in this mail? > > > >

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:39:22PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:50:22PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 17:22 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > Fedora 12, Ubuntu 9.10 and openSUSE 11.2 have this kernel version. > I was hoping that var

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 16:50:22 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > The X packages will be able to use modprobe > > > config files to enable KMS at run time as required. > > This is not for the kernel team to do. > FWIW, this is done for intel in experimental, pro

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 19:39 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:50:22PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 17:22 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you up

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Frans Pop
Ben Hutchings wrote: > Currently you can install kernel images from unstable or backports > without any extra dependencies. I'm not aware of any significant > breakage though some packages may rely on deprecated and removed stuff > in procfs or sysfs. I've been running up

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Frans Pop
Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you updates us > on the various things mentioned in this mail? I have another question. The naming policy for linux-image packages seems to have changed: instead of an ABI we now have "trunk". First I thought

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 01:51 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Currently you can install kernel images from unstable or backports > > without any extra dependencies. I'm not aware of any significant > > breakage though some packages may rely on deprecate

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 01:57 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you updates us > > on the various things mentioned in this mail? > > I have another question. The naming policy for linux-image packages seems >

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-23 Thread Michael Gernoth
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 01:51:01AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > The following change in /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server fixes this: > # See if our running kernel supports the NFS kernel server > - if [ -f /proc/kallsyms ] && ! grep -qE 'init_nf(sd|

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-23 Thread Frans Pop
Michael Gernoth wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 01:51:01AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >> The following change in /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server fixes this: >> # See if our running kernel supports the NFS kernel server >> -if [ -f /proc/kallsyms ] && ! grep -q

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-23 Thread Michael Tokarev
Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 01:51 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >> Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> Currently you can install kernel images from unstable or backports >>> without any extra dependencies. I'm not aware of any significant >>> breakage th

Remote kernel crash dump for Debian

2014-08-20 Thread Louis Bouchard
Hello, I have been working on an enhancement to the kdump-tools package that I maintain and that implements the remote kernel crash dump capability for Debian. With this enhancement, it is possible to have the result of the makedumpfile pass or the plain vmcore content to be sent remotely to a

Re: Time for a new kernel?

2014-11-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jeremy, le Mon 03 Nov 2014 09:03:25 -0500, a écrit : > if only the kernel were replaced, the rest would still work as we al > like it to.  (This is evident with Debian GNU Hurd & kFreeBSD projects). It's not so easy :) > We all hear everyone say "The code is open

Re: Time for a new kernel?

2014-11-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 03, Samuel Thibault wrote: > You'll end up with contradictory issues: having driver support and +---+ .:\:\:/:/:. | PLEASE DO NOT |:.:\:\:/:/:.: | FEED THE TROLLS | :=.' - - '.=:

Re: Time for a new kernel?

2014-11-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
Don't feed the troll. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Time for a new kernel?

2014-11-03 Thread Jeremy
y Pi. Focus all effort into supporting one piece of hardware, then grow from there when possible. Preferably open-source hardware. (lemote anyone?) But focusing back on Linux kernel, their direction is questionable. Linus himself hates security. He doesn't care. That mentality will trickle down.

Re: Time for a new kernel?

2014-11-03 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Jeremy wrote: [...] > Also, look at the success of the Raspberry Pi. [...] > Preferably open-source hardware. [...] [...] https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TargetedHardware#Unsuitable -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

customization of the kernel command line

2014-11-07 Thread PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
Hello, I am preparing a package for a scientific camera andor3. This package contain a kernel module for the video grabber. >From the constructor documentation, I need to add the nopat option to the >linux command line. So I would like to know what is the proper way to customize this c

Removing some kernel-related virtual packages

2013-09-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
avoid filling up /boot. And it is the job of the installer to make sure systems get a kernel installed; there is no sense in random packages also recommending/suggesting it! * linux-headers Same problem with auto-removal. The linux-headers- metapackages built by linux-latest also provide this vi

Bug#728606: Maybe a kernel bug?

2013-11-10 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
Hello, Installing (and booting into) linux-image-3.11-1-amd64 has fixed this for me.

Dyson project (Debian on illumos kernel)

2012-09-13 Thread Игорь Пашев
Hi, all. I think it's time to announce, that I've been working on a new Debian port from the last fall. This is Debian on illumos kernel (formerly OpenSolaris) - http://osdyson.org It really aims to be *general-purpose* OS, not a server, a destop or an appliance. I was motivated becau

big improvement with Experimental kernel 3.7.3

2013-02-13 Thread Paul Johnson
With the Wheezy kernel, I've experienced serious problems in WiFi support because of the iwlwifi driver for Intel Centrino Ultimate 6300. For quite a while, I've been running kernels from the Debian experimental server, various little things would break from time-to-time. The wireless

Re: problem with /etc/kernel scripts

2011-03-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 16:49 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi folks, > > I am using upstream's build procedure for creating Linux kernel packages > ("make deb-pkg"). For 2.6.38 it gives you these packages: &g

Re: problem with /etc/kernel scripts

2011-03-20 Thread Harald Dunkel
distinguish >> between the hooks for linux-image and for linux-headers somehow? > > The headers package should invoke hook scripts in > /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d (etc). dkms already installs a hook > script there. > Sorry, I missed that. Do you think that dkms sho

Re: problem with /etc/kernel scripts

2011-03-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
e run by the postinst script > >> of linux-image, but of linux-headers. Shouldn't we distinguish > >> between the hooks for linux-image and for linux-headers somehow? > > > > The headers package should invoke hook scripts in > > /etc/kernel/header_postins

Re: problem with /etc/kernel scripts

2011-03-31 Thread Harald Dunkel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/11 14:22, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 06:17 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: >> >> Do you think that dkms should drop its /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms >> script? AFAICS this script might be called b

Re: problem with /etc/kernel scripts

2011-03-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 10:59 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/21/11 14:22, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 06:17 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > >> > >> Do you think that dkms should

Re: problem with /etc/kernel scripts

2011-04-03 Thread Harald Dunkel
nt handlers to run after the >> installation >> of all packages has been completed? > [...] > > We had an extensive discussion defining a policy for the kernel and > initramfs builder hooks only last year. It's a little late to comment > now. > Two points a

Re: problem with /etc/kernel scripts

2011-04-03 Thread Michael Gilbert
this is highly complex. Maybe it would help to >>> introduce some scheme to register event handlers to run after the >>> installation >>> of all packages has been completed? >> [...] >> >> We had an extensive discussion defining a policy for the kernel

Re: problem with /etc/kernel scripts

2011-04-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
tand that this is highly complex. Maybe it would help to > >> introduce some scheme to register event handlers to run after the > >> installation > >> of all packages has been completed? > > [...] > > > > We had an extensive discussion defining a policy f

earliest supported kernel is 2.6.32 now

2011-05-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
From the udev 168-2 changelog: * Earliest kernel release supported raised from 2.6.27 to 2.6.32 due to the usage of accept4(2). So you may want to clean up your packages to remove all code needed for compatibility with older kernels. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-20 Thread Hideki Yamane
s not fully featured one yet. At least, I want to provide it with squeeze. and hope kernel-package would enable patch support again... ;) -- Regards, Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.or.jp/iijmio-mail.jp http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-20 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Yann Thanks for the reminder. Yes it is time to remove at least the openvz kernel patch package. Best regards, // Ola On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 03:14:59PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > Since April 2009, kernel-package has no use any more for the > {kernel,linux}-patch-* packages (AFA

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
to do so that I > missed ? As linux-patch-tomoyo1.7 package maintainer, tomoyo is merged with mainline, but it's not fully featured one yet. At least, I want to provide it with squeeze. and hope kernel-package would enable patch support again... ;) I won't speak for Manoj

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-23 Thread Yann Dirson
As linux-patch-tomoyo1.7 package maintainer, tomoyo is merged with > mainline, but it's not fully featured one yet. At least, I want to > provide it with squeeze. > > and hope kernel-package would enable patch support again... ;) I won't speak for Manoj here, but I feel we

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-23 Thread Yann Dirson
> >> As linux-patch-tomoyo1.7 package maintainer, tomoyo is merged > > >>with mainline, but it's not fully featured one yet. At least, I > > >>want to provide it with squeeze. > > >> > > >> and hope kernel-package would enable patch suppor

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
t; > or is there any remaining reason not to do so that I missed ? > > > > As linux-patch-tomoyo1.7 package maintainer, tomoyo is merged with > > mainline, but it's not fully featured one yet. At least, I want to > > provide it with squeeze. > > > > a

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Mar 23 2010, Yann Dirson wrote: > Let's maybe stay focussed on the initial problem: we *had* a way to > handle kernel patches as part of a self-contained distribution, but > there is no support for this any more. Moreover that support we had > was not 100% satisfactory

Re: Status of kernel patch packages

2010-03-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
the 'sid' branch in Subversion is now available at: git://git.debian.org/kernel/linux-2.6.git squeeze http://git.debian.org/?p=kernel/linux-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/squeeze This *will* be rebased at will; please don't treat it as anything more than informative at present.

New Kernel 2.6.32-4-amd -686

2010-04-04 Thread Han Shi Ming
Dear Debian Team, Many thanks for releasing the 2.6.32-4-amd and -686 Debian kernel in sid. This is really a big step forward. I especially benefit from DRM/KMS in conjunction with the new radeon (also frame buffer) drivers. A great kernel! Thanks again, and best regards Han, Shi-Ming

Re: 2.6+ kernel make-tag problem

2011-12-05 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
#1 If I use ./linux-2.6.38/README I get errors (see below). If I use ./linux-2.4.20/README I get a [good] kernel. #2 Nowhere can I find "root=/dev/hdax" needs to be "root=/dev/sdax" due to new SATA changes in driver code. Others have reported this. I found it by accide

Re: 2.6+ kernel make-tag problem

2011-12-05 Thread darkestkhan
2011/12/5 John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell : > #1 If I use ./linux-2.6.38/README I get errors (see below). > If I use ./linux-2.4.20/README I get a [good] kernel. > Could you be more specific? mine so called ./linux* doesn't even exists to begin with > #2 Nowhere can I fin

Re: 2.6+ kernel make-tag problem

2011-12-06 Thread Jon Dowland
one of the "kernel bug report" sites load in firefox (i get a > 404, why? ipv6 only?). I can't post bug to them and have no "gpg > key" either. bugzilla.kernel.org is down due to the kernel.org outage reported at <https://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/br

Re: 2.6+ kernel make-tag problem

2011-12-07 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
e and manuals to see if the previous, that "hda==sda but use uuid isn't depreciated" is true. FIRST UUID. Then "far below" "./linux" (/usr/src) and kernel bugs org. No sorry. It's diffuclt to find. I don't see where it's been documented

Re: 2.6+ kernel make-tag problem

2011-12-07 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
Correcting myself! sorry. not sure anyone cares. I said "make deb-pkg" didn't leave me any .deb ** "make deb-pkg" did make 4 .deb packages. they are in "$(srctree)/../", and one I tried is good. "make tar-pkg" leaves it in "$(srctree)/" and I'm still unsure how i would know to look in ".."

Re: Question about linux kernel modules

2012-01-27 Thread Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth
Ooops! Forgot the reference: [1]http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x El 27/01/12 17:20, Luis Alejandro Martinez Faneyth escribio: > Hi, > > I was wondering what was the package (or packages) where linux kernel > modules that are not shipped with it (i.e. not included in the > linux-ima

Re: Question about linux kernel modules

2012-01-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 17:20 -0430, Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering what was the package (or packages) where linux kernel > modules that are not shipped with it (i.e. not included in the > linux-image package) are packaged. Various packages for dif

Re: official Debian kernel-free images

2022-11-05 Thread Étienne Mollier
Hi Patrice, Patrice Duroux, on 2022-11-05: > There are many projects here and there (Termux, AnLinux, etc.) that are based > on > some sorts of kernel-free images of a minimal Debian system to be used through > chroot (other Linux) or PRoot (Android) or whatever environments. > M

Re: official Debian kernel-free images

2022-11-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2022-11-05 at 20:20 +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: > There are many projects here and there (Termux, AnLinux, etc.) that are based > on > some sorts of kernel-free images of a minimal Debian system to be used through > chroot (other Linux) or PRoot (Android) or whatever environ

Re: official Debian kernel-free images

2022-11-06 Thread Patrice Duroux
Many thanks Étienne and Paul for all the resources. Regards, Patrice

Re: Kernel 6.5 from Experimental working

2023-09-07 Thread Luna Jernberg
Also updated this to 6.5.1 today and still works Den tors 7 sep. 2023 kl 08:37 skrev Luna Jernberg : > > Hey! > > Just installed Kernel 6.5 from experimental during Debcamp 2023 on my > ThinkPad Edge 0217A16 and it works as intended on this laptop :) > > //Luna bittin Jernberg

kernel nvidia dkms rebuild after upgrade?

2018-01-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello, After the latest update to 4.9.0-5, and a backport (4.14.0-bpo2) -- in light of meltdown -- my nvidia drivers failed to load. Rebulding the modules manually -- https://askubuntu.com/questions/53364/command-to-rebuild-all-dkms-modules-for-all-installed-kernels/174017 -- did fix it. Did I m

Question regarding patching in 4.9 kernel

2018-09-26 Thread Harish Venkatraman
Hi, I want the following patch to be back ported to 4.9 kernel. Can you please let me know if it can be back ported to 4.9 kernel? https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/63a6fff353d01da5a22b72670c434bf12fa0e3b8 Thanks

installing kernel debug symbols on stretch?

2017-01-14 Thread Daniel Pocock
I notice the dbg package for the kernel was moved, but it doesn't appear to be installable. I've added the necessary entry to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug/ stretch-debug main non-free contrib and then I try to get the package: # apt-g

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-02-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 05:59:53PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Can anybody make any suggestions or add anything to the wiki? My old Mac Mini had a crazy clock and ntp was not enough to sanitize it. I fixed it by using adjtimex in addition to ntp. As an example, my clock was off by 2890 parts p

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-02-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Pocock writes: > I've observed a system that had a wildly incorrect hardware clock (when > it was first unboxed), I ran ntpdate to sync the kernel clock but after > a shutdown and startup again it had a wacky time again. > I came across the discussion about how the har

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-02-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 11:18 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Daniel Pocock writes: > > > I've observed a system that had a wildly incorrect hardware clock (when > > it was first unboxed), I ran ntpdate to sync the kernel clock but after > > a shutdown and startup

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-02-27 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 27/02/17 20:18, Russ Allbery wrote: > Daniel Pocock writes: > >> I've observed a system that had a wildly incorrect hardware clock (when >> it was first unboxed), I ran ntpdate to sync the kernel clock but after >> a shutdown and startup again it had a wacky ti

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-02-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Pocock writes: > However, at the time when I ran ntpdate, ntp was not running. I had > brought up the network manually due to an interface renaming issue on > the first boot. Maybe when somebody runs ntpdate in a scenario like > that the kernel is not sending the new date

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-02-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Hutchings writes: > On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 11:18 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> The much simpler systemd-timesyncd doesn't set the hardware clock for >> reasons that one may or may not agree with (I honestly haven't >> researched it in any depth), > It looks like it does iff the RTC is set to

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-02-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
somebody runs ntpdate in a scenario like > > that the kernel is not sending the new date/time to the hardware clock. > > Right, ntpdate for some reason doesn't set the flag to do this. [...] There is a very good reason, which is that without continuous adjustment the system clock cann

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-02-27 Thread Russ Allbery
t; the first boot.  Maybe when somebody runs ntpdate in a scenario like >>> that the kernel is not sending the new date/time to the hardware >>> clock. >> Right, ntpdate for some reason doesn't set the flag to do this. > [...] > There is a very good reason, which

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-02-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
brought up the network manually due to an interface renaming issue on > > > > the first boot.  Maybe when somebody runs ntpdate in a scenario like > > > > that the kernel is not sending the new date/time to the hardware > > > > clock. > > > Right, ntpdate f

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-02-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 27/02/17 21:26, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 11:18 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> Daniel Pocock writes: >> >>> I've observed a system that had a wildly incorrect hardware >>> clock (when it was first unboxed), I ran ntpdate to sync

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-02-28 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:15:23AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > But ntpd is also known to have a large amount of code written > > without as much regard for security as one would hope. It seems > > like an unnecessary risk for most systems. > > > Thanks for that security tip, I'm tempted to g

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-02-28 Thread Bjørn Mork
Adam Borowski writes: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:15:23AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> > But ntpd is also known to have a large amount of code written >> > without as much regard for security as one would hope. It seems >> > like an unnecessary risk for most systems. >> >> >> Thanks for tha

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-02-28 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
Daniel Pocock writes: > On 27/02/17 21:26, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> But ntpd is also known to have a large amount of code written >> without as much regard for security as one would hope. It seems >> like an unnecessary risk for most systems. > Thanks for that security tip, I'm tempted to get ri

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-02-28 Thread Kurt Roeckx
ever, at the time when I ran ntpdate, ntp was not running.  I had > > > > > brought up the network manually due to an interface renaming issue on > > > > > the first boot.  Maybe when somebody runs ntpdate in a scenario like > > > > > that the kernel is

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-02-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Kurt Roeckx writes: > Having ntpdate clear the unsynced flag doesn't make sense since it would > start writing a time to the RTC each 11 minutes, and as Ben said you > have no idea which of the 2 clocks is the most correct one. Oh, I thought it was a one-shot thing, but it turns on syncing behav

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-03-04 Thread Roger Lynn
On 28/02/17 01:00, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 16:09 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Right, ntpdate for some reason doesn't set the flag to do this. > > There is a very good reason, which is that without continuous > adjustment the system clock cannot be assumed more stable than the

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-03-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2017-03-04 at 20:33 +, Roger Lynn wrote: > On 28/02/17 01:00, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 16:09 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Right, ntpdate for some reason doesn't set the flag to do this. > > > > There is a very good reason, which is that without continuous > >

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-03-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2017-02-28 20:01:52 +0100, Carsten Leonhardt wrote: > Daniel Pocock writes: > > > On 27/02/17 21:26, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> But ntpd is also known to have a large amount of code written > >> without as much regard for security as one would hope. It seems > >> like an unnecessary risk for m

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-03-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2017-03-05 03:52:33 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I would also expect that users running command-line tools to set the > time, such as ntpdate, have enough technical understanding to > distinguish the system clock and RTC. And what's worse is that by default, ntpdate is run automatically from /

Re: Rebuilding the linux kernel quickly

2016-06-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 09:12 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi, > > I am starring at the documentation for rebuilding the Debian kernel. > I'd like to test a change in a non-module section of the kernel code > (CONFIG_FB_OF=y), to resolve #825840. So I thought I could

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