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Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 6 release



Hi,

Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> (2016-05-22):
> On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 01:37:42PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
> > On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 11:13:17PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > 
> > > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the sixth alpha
> > > release of the installer for Debian 9 "Stretch".
> > [...]
> > >  * debian-installer:
> > >     - Bump linux kernel version from 4.3.0-1 to 4.5.0-2.
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > kernel 4.5 has a regression on many systems whose ethernet
> > controller is based on the stmmac/dwmac design (which is quite
> > common on arm-based devices).  This results in wired ethernet not
> > working on a number of otherwise supported systems, among them
> > all Allwinner A20-based devices and AFAIK also the Rockchip-based
> > Firefly-RK3288.
> > 
> > The issue has been fixed in kernel 4.6, but not yet in the 4.5
> > stable series; cf. the corresponding thread on the
> > linux-arm-kernel mailinglist:
> > 
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-May/430430.html
> 
> I forgot to mention the corresponding Debian bug:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823493

Thanks for the notice. Feel free to propose wording/patch for
errata.wml:
  http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/devel/debian-installer/errata.wml?view=markup

Maybe add -www@ to the loop when replying so that having it committed
doesn't block on me.


KiBi.

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