Re: Oracle kernel patches for SPARC S7 IB support
Understood.
Yes, I am aware of the Oracle UEK patch location on the Internet. Just unsure which UEK and NON-UEK related patches are cherry picked and added to Debian sparc64 kernel?
Also, from my understanding, not all of the UEK patches are added to the Debian kernel yet. Is that correct?
Regarding a newer ISO with a test kernel, just wondering when that may happen time line wise? 30 days, 60 days, after several months, next Debian version release, etc? Once again, I am new to Debian release schedule procedures and timelines.
> On Sep 24, 2025, at 5:54 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> 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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