From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
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 13:58:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87in5du4kg.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180717153608.GA24505@jasmine.lan> (Leo Famulari's message of "Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:36:08 -0400")
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> 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.
Thanks, Leo. I guess I'll skip the 4.17.6 update for now, but I'm open
to other suggestions. Hopefully upstream will resolve this issue soon.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-17 18:00 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 [this message]
2018-07-17 18:00 ` Leo Famulari
2018-07-18 18:00 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-07-17 19:55 ` Brett Gilio
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