Re: Oracle kernel patches for SPARC S7 IB support
On Wed, 2025-09-24 at 02:30 -0700, Tony Rodriguez wrote:
> Thanks Adrian, we appreciate your assistance, a new test kernel will be
> great!
OK.
> Regarding IB patches, it will be helpful to have more details
> (meaningful issue descriptions) regarding Orabugs 23055865 and
> 23055807. Many of us don't have Oracle MOS/BUGS related access. What
> exactly do the following Infiniband patches resolve?
>
> https://github.com/oracle/linux-uek/commit/fc779be69835f2ce95b767faab4a5f6ba578a04f
>
> https://github.com/oracle/linux-uek/commit/2e3c491ee5973fee0cad79c7c807a2695f0b154d
I don't know. I don't have access to Oracle's internal bug tracker either/
> It may be helpful to have web links, so we can easily see diffs and
> issue descriptions for all Debian related patches used in the sparc64
> kernel. At this point, unsure how many Debian sparc64 patches in total
> and what they fix?
Web links to what? I have forked Oracle's UEK kernel with the uek4/qu7 set
as the main branch. And that branch contains all the publicly known patches
by Oracle engineers.
> On another note, will there be an updated ISO image with new kernel
> fixes within ports in the near future? Unsure what steps are involved
> before all this work actually turns into an updated ISO release for
> everyone? Curious regarding the process of going from one stage to the
> next, since the latest sparc64 ports ISO is from May 2023. I am new
> regarding understanding the Debian release process.
>
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/12.0/sparc64/
No, the latest image is from August 29 2025:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/
I also built an even newer image for testing here:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/tests/sparc64-20250923/
These images do not contain any of the patches yet as including a patched
kernel in ISO images isn't really trivial due to the way images are built.
Adrian
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