Bug#841850: linux-image-4.7.0-1-686_4.7.8-1_i386.deb does not boot on Thinkpad T41

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 + pending confirmed

Hi!

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 06:21:55AM +0200, Petra Ruebe-Pugliese wrote:
> On Wed. 26. Oct. 2016, at 09:05 Salvatore Bonaccorso (carnil@debian.org) wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wednesday 26 October 2016 at 07:36:21 +0200  Salvatore Bonaccorso (carnil@debian.org) wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > 
> > > > There seem to be an upstream fix now for this issue:
> > > > 
> > > > https://git.kernel.org/linus/ff8560512b8d4b7ca3ef4fd69166634ac30b2525
> > > > 
> > > > Can you by chance confirm that this works as well for you?
> > > 
>  [...]
> > 
> > Yes you can follow the same procedure starting from a new source tree
> > without the previous applied. 
> > 
> > You can get the above patch as well directly via
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/patch/?id=ff8560512b8d4b7ca3ef4fd69166634ac30b2525
>   Done
> > so that you don't have to copy paste it from the webpage to a file. It
> > should apply with only some fuzz to the source. 
> 
>  So I did the following:
> 
>   -> Create a new temporary directory and change into it
> 
>   -> apt-get source linux
> 
>   -> cd linux-4.7.8
> 
>   -> bash debian/bin/test-patches  -f 686  ../upstream-patch-ff8560512b8d4b7ca3ef4fd69166634ac30b2525 
> 
>   -> install the resulting
> [...]  35M Oct 27 01:48 linux-image-4.7.0-1-686-unsigned_4.7.8-1a~test_i386.deb
>      on Thinkpad T41
> 
>   -> reboot that Thinkpad -- and it worked fine  :-)

Great, thanks a lot for confirming that! Your triaging help is very
much appreciated.

I pushed the patch to the packaging repo for the next upload.

Regards,
Salvatore