Bug#1079800: release-notes - Document that default ppc64el kernel switched to 4k pages

Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]> Sat, 19 Jul 2025 01:36:19 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.documentation
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Control: forwarded -1 https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/280

On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 05:12:34PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> The kernel team decided to switch the default kernel for ppc64el (and
> with this also ppc64) to 4k page size.  This is known to break systems
> in some circumstances.  We need to document this in the release notes as
> well as in the package.

It's unclear to me which info is useful directly in the 
release-notes, and what can just be in the kernel NEWS file.

I've opened an MR at https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/280 

Improvements & review welcome.

Chris