Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 6 release
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 02:32:00PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> (2016-05-22):
> > On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 01:37:42PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 11:13:17PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > >
> > > > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the sixth alpha
> > > > release of the installer for Debian 9 "Stretch".
> > > [...]
> > > > * debian-installer:
> > > > - Bump linux kernel version from 4.3.0-1 to 4.5.0-2.
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > kernel 4.5 has a regression on many systems whose ethernet
> > > controller is based on the stmmac/dwmac design (which is quite
> > > common on arm-based devices). This results in wired ethernet not
> > > working on a number of otherwise supported systems, among them
> > > all Allwinner A20-based devices and AFAIK also the Rockchip-based
> > > Firefly-RK3288.
> > >
> > > The issue has been fixed in kernel 4.6, but not yet in the 4.5
> > > stable series; cf. the corresponding thread on the
> > > linux-arm-kernel mailinglist:
> > >
> > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-May/430430.html
> >
> > I forgot to mention the corresponding Debian bug:
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823493
>
> Thanks for the notice. Feel free to propose wording/patch for
> errata.wml:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/devel/debian-installer/errata.wml?view=markup
>
> Maybe add -www@ to the loop when replying so that having it committed
> doesn't block on me.
I am not familiar with the webml syntax, so I can currently
only supply a wording proposal:
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Wired ethernet non-functional on certain arm-based systems
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Alpha 6 of the installer is based on the Linux kernel 4.5. While
kernel 4.5 has fixed a number of issues present in earlier
kernels, it has introduced a regression in the stmmac/dwmac
ethernet driver. This results in non-working wired ethernet on
a number of systems whose ethernet controller is based on the
stmmac/dwmac design.
The issue primarily affects arm-based systems. Currently known
affected devices include all boards based on the Allwinner A20
SoC (e.g. various Olimex A20-Olinuxino models, LeMaker Banana Pi
and Banana Pro, Sinovoip Banana Pi M1, Cubietech Cubieboard2 and
Cubietruck, LinkSprite pcDuino3). As the stmmac/dwmac design is
also used in other arm-based SoCs, it is expected that further
devices will be affected as well.
Status: The issue has been fixed upstream in kernel 4.6 but the
changes haven't yet been backported to the kernel 4.5.x stable
series. It is expected that the problem will be solved in Alpha
7 of the installer (either by the fix being backported to kernel
4.5 or by switching the installer to kernel 4.6).
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Regards,
Karsten
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