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Bug#950578: fixed in linux 5.5.13-1

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On Mon, 2020-03-30 at 09:44 +0100, Pete Batard wrote:
> Does that mean that the next Debian ISO installer will use Linux kernel 
> 5.5.13.1 or later?
> 
> Because, if that is not the case, this bug is certainly not fixed at all 
> and must be reopened.
> 
> To reiterate, the problem is that the official netinst ISO cannot 
> perform a network installation of the Debian packages due to its use of 
> a 4.x kernel that is lacking an ACPI compatible Genet driver.
> 
> This means that the *installation* 4.x kernel (i.e. the default kernel 
> used by the installer, which, unlike the post installation kernel, is 
> not something that can be upgraded) must be patched with a retrofitted 
> Genet driver.
[...]

This is why the bug tracking system records which versions are fixed,
and which are not.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings - Debian developer, member of kernel, installer and LTS teams

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Bug#950578: fixed in linux 5.5.13-1 Pete Batard <pete@akeo.ie> - 2020-03-30 10:50 +0200
  Bug#950578: fixed in linux 5.5.13-1 Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2020-03-30 15:40 +0200

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