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

From	Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#900581: linux: Enable Buster kernel features for newer ARM64 servers.
Date	2018-08-06 16:40 +0200
Message-ID	<wjOPT-4rx-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:58:56AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 12:25 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > On 06/09/2018 05:15 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > 
> > > I think this is probably something for the arch (or perhaps
> > > platform)
> > > code to deal with. See for example all the various platform quirks
> > > in
> > > arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c, which fixup various wrongness and/or
> > > disable features.
> > 
> > I followed your advice and created a fix in the arm64 acpi init
> > code of arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c.  Here's the submission:
> > 
> >   https://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=152891415600796&w=2
> >   https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-acpi/msg82887.html
> 
> Thanks!

Thanks indeed - unfortunately we seem to be endind up in 
a dead end with the upstream developers:

https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg669674.html

Considering HPE didn't actually release the firmware, I think we
can go with just enabling the options and documenting the command line
option.

Riku

Thread

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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