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From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 22274@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22274: GuixSD resets hardware clock (on Lenovo x200 with libreboot)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 13:50:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn8hi6d2.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3hd8pm2.fsf@gnu.org>

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
>>
>>> From e60db83ffff23c57ec5c44de7c99cee8e4e353ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
>>> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 20:34:25 -0800
>>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add linux-libre-4.2.5
>>>
>>> This older version of linux-libre is being added because it was found
>>> that newer versions (or at least 4.3.3) of linux-libre were not reading
>>> the hardware clock on (at least Libreboot-enabled) Thinkpad x200
>>> machines.
>>>
>>> * gnu/linux.scm (linux-libre-4.2.5): New variable.
>>
>> I would say that the variable should be named 'linux-libre-4.2', which
>> would always be bound to the latest 4.2.x.  However, there's another
>> problem: the 4.2 branch is no longer supported upstream, so it will no
>> longer receive security updates and other important fixes.
>>
>> I suggest that we instead add linux-libre-4.1, which is still supported
>> upstream and is designated as an LTS branch.  Would that be okay?
>
> If it works for Christopher, that’s a good idea.

Fine by me, assuming it works.  I can test it works fine probably tomorrow.

>> Another issue is that the kernel config for 4.3 is being used here.  I
>> guess maybe that's working well enough in this case, but really our
>> kernel packages should be refactored somewhat to make this nicer.
>
> Yeah, though that’s probably beyond the scope of this particular issue.

I haven't noticed any problems, though 

>> One more thing: Francis Rowe told me that the coreboot developers have
>> determined that this is a bug on their side, and libreboot will
>> cherry-pick the fix soon, if it hasn't already.
>
> Interesting.  Any links to the bug report or commit?

Yeah, Francis told me this as well.

I guess this means that I should reflash libreboot once this change
happens.  I'm a little bit nervous to do that! :)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-19 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-30 15:24 bug#22274: GuixSD resets hardware clock (on Lenovo x200 with libreboot) Christopher Allan Webber
2015-12-31 20:27 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-01-04  3:37   ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-01-01 15:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-04  3:39   ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-01-04 15:02     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-05 15:40       ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-01-14 18:55         ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-01-15  9:35           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-17 16:51             ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-01-18 16:58               ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-01-18 19:42                 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-01-18 22:42                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-18 23:11                     ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-01-19 16:33                   ` Mark H Weaver
2016-01-19 17:07                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-19 17:11                       ` Mark H Weaver
2016-01-19 21:50                       ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2016-02-02  8:17                         ` Mark H Weaver
2016-02-05 13:08                           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-05 15:23                             ` Mark H Weaver
2016-01-12  7:19 ` bug#22274: epochfail Francis Rowe
2016-01-12 19:03   ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-18 17:02   ` Christopher Allan Webber

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