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

[Petra Ruebe-Pugliese <debml@prp.in-berlin.de>]

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  :-)

    Best
    Petra