Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

> There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some
> other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release,
> similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* just
> like a normal jessie release, but with a few key updates:
>
>  * backports kernel
>  * rebuilt d-i to match that kernel
>  * X drivers
>  * ... (other things that might be needed for consistency)
>
> all rolled up with a small installer image build (netinst, maybe DVD#1).
>
> A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners
> of very recent amd64 machines too, with better support for things on
> the Skylake platform. Those are the only two architectures I'm
> thinking of supporting at this point.
>
> Is anybody else interested in helping? Thoughts/comments?

I think it would benefit more than Skylake users. The last few
processors are missing support. Below is from a Core i5-5300U (5th
gen) and a 3.19.0-64-generic kernel.

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$ dmesg | egrep -i '(error|failed)'
...
[35679.953137] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[35980.749723] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[36280.594838] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[36580.439940] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[37029.202190] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[37179.118743] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[37629.831878] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[37779.748453] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[38229.510127] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged

$ sudo mcelog
mcelog: Family 6 Model 3d CPU: only decoding architectural errors