From: Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: linux 4.17.7 not suitable for i386
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:55:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0vld4cn.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180717153608.GA24505@jasmine.lan>
Leo Famulari writes:
> FYI, the latest stable Linux release (4.17.7) is not suitable
> for i386
> (i686-linux) systems. Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman:
>
> "NOTE, this kernel release is broken for i386 systems. If you
> are
> running such a machine, do NOT update to this release, you will
> not be
> able to boot properly.
>
> I did this release anyway with this known problem as there is a
> fix in
> here for x86-64 systems that was nasty to track down and was
> affecting
> people. Given that the huge majority of systems are NOT i386, I
> felt
> this was a safe release to do at this point in time."
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/17/434
>
> So, we should take care to preserve the linux-libre 4.17.6
> package
> definition for i686-linux, or skip this release.
Thank you for the heads up on this. I am going to forward this to
the
Parabola GNU/Linux-Libre list.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-17 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-17 15:36 linux 4.17.7 not suitable for i386 Leo Famulari
2018-07-17 17:58 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-07-17 18:00 ` Leo Famulari
2018-07-18 18:00 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-07-17 19:55 ` Brett Gilio [this message]
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