From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: linux 4.17.7 not suitable for i386 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 14:00:56 -0400 Message-ID: <87a7qozanb.fsf@netris.org> References: <20180717153608.GA24505@jasmine.lan> <20180717180004.GA23212@jasmine.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53192) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ffqmU-0006hC-R0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2018 14:02:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ffqmR-0004HR-Ol for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2018 14:02:30 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([64.112.178.59]:49094) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ffqmR-0004El-Kk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2018 14:02:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20180717180004.GA23212@jasmine.lan> (Leo Famulari's message of "Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:00:04 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Leo Famulari writes: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:36:08AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: >> Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman: >> >> "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." > > Apparently the missing patch is referred to here: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/17/443 > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/17/505 I just pushed the 4.17.7 update with the cherry-picked fix for i686. Thanks, Mark