From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brett Gilio Subject: Re: linux 4.17.7 not suitable for i386 Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:55:36 -0500 Message-ID: <87d0vld4cn.fsf@posteo.net> References: <20180717153608.GA24505@jasmine.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41278) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ffW6X-0004PJ-Qp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2018 15:57:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ffW6S-0006DO-Vg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2018 15:57:49 -0400 Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:41464) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ffW6S-0006BO-Ko for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2018 15:57:44 -0400 Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B05020EFD for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:57:41 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <20180717153608.GA24505@jasmine.lan> 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: > 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.