Control: reassign -1 src:linux 3.16.7-ckt25-1 On Sat, 2016-04-09 at 18:31 -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > Package: linux-source-3.16 > Version: 3.16.7-ckt25-1~bpo70+1 > > Between 3.16.7-ctk20 and 3.16.7-ctk25 the kexec functionality of the > Linux kernel was damaged. The system I'm looking at uses a 3.3 kernel > to load the "real" kernel off a filesystem and kexec into that. The 3.3 > kernel was able to successfully kexec into a 3.16.7-ctk20 kernel, but > is unable to kexec into a 3.16.7-ctk25 kernel. However I found the > 3.16.7-ctk20 IS able to successfully kexec the 3.16.7-ctk25 kernel. Surely this is a bug in the built-in (3.3) kernel, not the new one? If there's something simple that can be done in the Debian kernel to work around this, we should do that, but otherwise you're stuck with this. > Doing a double-kexec does work around the issue, but it means I need to > hold onto that one magic kernel for the moment... > > In other news, it appears sometime between 3.3 and 3.10 there started > being a requirement for GCC 4.8 on mipsel. Packages in jessie must be buildable using compiler versions in jessie. That means either gcc-4.8 or gcc-4.9. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett
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