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Bug#939633: More severe #939633 for RP4 on 5.8?



On Fri, 2020-11-27 at 20:41 -0800, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> found 935456 5.9.6-1~bpo10+1
> quit
> 
> After having spent several hours on kernel compiles and experimenting
> with the situation, I'm fairly sure this also applies to
> linux-source-5.9.
> 
> Odd thing is, when I booted the device using the Tianocore implementation
> it came right up with no problems.  I'm getting this odd suspicion
> someone deliberately broke the device-trees in Debian's kernel source.
> The goal being to force everyone onto the Tianocore/ACPI implementation
> and try to kill device-trees.
> 
> Right now I think this is conspiracy theory territory, but I'm left
> wondering how such a serious bug could hang around so long...

We don't patch any of this stuff.  Any bugs in the device trees that we
ship come from the upstream kernel, and need to be fixed there.  No-
one's deliberately breaking this in Debian, and you had better stop
making accusations like that.

Ben. 

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

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