Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.

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Subject	Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.
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On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 02:14 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> I don't think it's OK to cause a regression like this.  Since this is
> problem affects a specific known platform, the driver ought to
> recognise it and disable itself automatically.

Indeed, while the Fedora bug upthread claims such a patch wouldn't be
upstreamable, AFAIK it is not uncommon to have such quirks for broken
firmware based upon DMI identifiers or similar.

Ian.

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Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> - 2018-06-01 19:10 +0200
  Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi> - 2018-06-04 13:10 +0200
    Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> - 2018-06-04 17:40 +0200
      Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-06-05 03:20 +0200
        Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> - 2018-06-05 09:40 +0200
          Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> - 2018-06-08 21:40 +0200
            Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> - 2018-06-09 14:20 +0200
              Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> - 2018-06-13 21:30 +0200
                Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> - 2018-06-14 11:10 +0200
                Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi> - 2018-08-06 16:40 +0200
                Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> - 2018-08-07 00:10 +0200
  Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> - 2018-09-01 01:00 +0200
    Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> - 2018-09-02 10:00 +0200
  Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> - 2018-09-01 02:00 +0200
    Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-09-04 19:30 +0200
      Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> - 2018-09-04 20:50 +0200
        Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi> - 2018-09-05 08:50 +0200
        Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-09-06 22:30 +0200
  Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> - 2018-09-20 22:00 +0200
    Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> - 2018-09-21 17:40 +0200
      Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-09-22 01:30 +0200
        Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers. Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> - 2018-09-24 19:20 +0200

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