Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 6 release
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
Regards,
Karsten
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