Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

2015-03-04 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 08:17:56 + Ian Campbell ijc+ub...@hellion.org.uk wrote: On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 00:07 +0200, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: Just one suggestion. It would be really nice if the Debian installer could present itself on all the available consoles, so that the user can use any

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

2015-03-03 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 00:07 +0200, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: Just one suggestion. It would be really nice if the Debian installer could present itself on all the available consoles, so that the user can use any of them for providing input to the installer. There is some reason why d-i doesn't

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

2015-03-02 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 28-02-15 17:18, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 11:49 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: On 21-02-15 11:26, Ian Campbell wrote: Speaking of which, if someone were to identify a suitable set of simple-fb backports for 3.16 and they are reasonably self contained I'd happily backport

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

2015-03-01 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 16:18:16 + Ian Campbell ijc+ub...@hellion.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 11:49 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: On 21-02-15 11:26, Ian Campbell wrote: Speaking of which, if someone were to identify a suitable set of simple-fb backports for 3.16 and they are

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

2015-03-01 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 11:49 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: On 21-02-15 11:26, Ian Campbell wrote: Speaking of which, if someone were to identify a suitable set of simple-fb backports for 3.16 and they are reasonably self contained I'd happily backport them to the kenrel which is going to be in

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

2015-02-21 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 20-02-15 19:33, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 15:11:04 +0100 Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, On 20-02-15 11:36, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:19:51 +0100 Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, On 20-02-15 09:08, Siarhei Siamashka

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

2015-02-21 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 10:41 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: By the right thing I mean having things just work for the end user, whatever I'm doing having things just work is always my end goal. This is also why I'm mostly focussing upstream, which has resulted in Fedora 21 and the upcoming Debian

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

2015-02-21 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 21-02-15 11:26, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 10:41 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: By the right thing I mean having things just work for the end user, whatever I'm doing having things just work is always my end goal. This is also why I'm mostly focussing upstream, which has

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

2015-02-21 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 11:49:22 +0100 Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com wrote: On 21-02-15 11:26, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 10:41 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: Ian, can you live with overloading the high machine-id bits to deliberately break old kernels when not compiled with

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

2015-02-21 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 21-02-15 14:11, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 11:49:22 +0100 Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com wrote: On 21-02-15 11:26, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 10:41 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: Ian, can you live with overloading the high machine-id bits to

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

2015-02-20 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:19:51 +0100 Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, On 20-02-15 09:08, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: Store the 'compatibility revision' number in the top 4 bits of the machine id and pass it to the kernel. The old buggy kernels will fail to load with a very much

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

2015-02-20 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 20-02-15 09:08, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: Store the 'compatibility revision' number in the top 4 bits of the machine id and pass it to the kernel. The old buggy kernels will fail to load with a very much googlable error message on the serial console: Error: unrecognized/unsupported

[U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

2015-02-20 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
Store the 'compatibility revision' number in the top 4 bits of the machine id and pass it to the kernel. The old buggy kernels will fail to load with a very much googlable error message on the serial console: Error: unrecognized/unsupported machine ID (r1 = 0x100010bb) This error message can

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

2015-02-20 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 20-02-15 11:36, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:19:51 +0100 Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, On 20-02-15 09:08, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: Store the 'compatibility revision' number in the top 4 bits of the machine id and pass it to the kernel. The old buggy

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

2015-02-20 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 15:11:04 +0100 Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, On 20-02-15 11:36, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:19:51 +0100 Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, On 20-02-15 09:08, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: Store the 'compatibility