Bug#964812: closed by Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org> (reply to Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org>) (Bug#964812: fixed in linux 5.8.3-1~exp1)
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> From: David Awogbemila <awogbemila@google.com>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
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> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 18:21:14 +0000
> Subject: linux: Pulling Google Compute Engine Virtual Ethernet Driver into Debian
> Source: linux
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Google would like to have its cloud networking driver, the Google
> Compute Engine Virtual Ethernet driver (GVE) pulled into Debian
> releases.
>
> This driver has been accepted into the upstream Linux kernel
> since version 5.2:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/ethernet/google?h=v5.4.46).
>
> I understand that the first step towards this is enabling the driver
> in Debian's unstable and testing releases so I have attached the
> relevant Kconfig file for GVE to this bug report.
>
> GVE can be configured in the kernel's config file with:
>
> CONFIG_GVE=m
> CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_GOOGLE=y
>
> We're also looking to have the driver backported into Debian 10
> source.
>
> Please let me know other steps we need to take to accomplish the goals
> listed above.
>
> Best
> David
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 10.4
> APT prefers stable-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-cloud-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Thank you for the update! Just to confirm, does this mean the driver
will be available to future versions on Debian
(i.e. have the config options set so that the driver is available in
Debian Images)?
If so, what versions of Debian will this affect? (I'm guessing the
ones starting with linux 5.8?)
Thanks.
David
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