Mathieu, thanks a bunch for this. On the Debian side, it would be nice to push for it. Do you have the possibility to sponsor that ? Jeremy, I know that there are some needs on the kernel side, but there is a 4.2 in experimental, would it be enough ?
Fred On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:14:37 -0000, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu...@gmail.com> wrote: > skiboot (5.1.1-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium > > * New upstream release. > * Dropped patches; applied upstream: > - 0001-external-gard-add-Makefile-targets-to-make-debian-pa.patch > - 0001-Honor-compilation-flags-passed-from-the-environment.patch > - 0001-Fixes-for-compilation-with-Werror.patch > * debian/patches/uninitialized_uses.patch: fix up uninitialized variables > that make our build fail > > ** Changed in: skiboot (Ubuntu) > Status: In Progress => Fix Released > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1467542 > > Title: > [FFE] ship skiboot (opal-prd) 5.1.1 > > Status in skiboot package in Ubuntu: > Fix Released > Status in skiboot source package in Trusty: > In Progress > > Bug description: > [Impact] > Users of ppc64el POWER8 hardware / OPAL firmwares > > [Test case] > Testing this software requires real POWER8 hardware. > 1) Run opal-prd on a POWER8 system > 2) Verify that the daemon runs and is listening on /dev/opal-prd (which > needs to be provided by the kernel) > 3) *TBD* (see below, firmware-provided code may be executed depending on > received events) > > [Regression Potential] > Minimal. This is hardware enablement software, not previously available in > Ubuntu, which is done in cooperation with and at the request of the hardware > manufacturer. > > --- > > This is a bug to track the inclusion of opal-prd package in Ubuntu. > The plan is to add it initially for 15.10 and later backport it to > 14.04 archive. > > opal-prd is a daemon that listens for hardware diagnostic events (by > listening on the /dev/opal-prd device), and executes firmware- > providedexecutable code to handle these events. > > For now, the code lives inside https://github.com/open- > power/skiboot/tree/master/external/opal-prd. > > opal-prd/skiboot is specific to ppc64el > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skiboot/+bug/1467542/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1467542 Title: [FFE] ship skiboot (opal-prd) 5.1.1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skiboot/+bug/1467542/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
