Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 6 release

Karsten Merker <[email protected]> (2016-05-22):
> I am not familiar with the webml syntax, so I can currently 
> only supply a wording proposal:
> 
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> 
> Wired ethernet non-functional on certain arm-based systems
> ==========================================================
> 
> Alpha 6 of the installer is based on the Linux kernel 4.5. While
> kernel 4.5 has fixed a number of issues present in earlier
> kernels, it has introduced a regression in the stmmac/dwmac
> ethernet driver.  This results in non-working wired ethernet on
> a number of systems whose ethernet controller is based on the
> stmmac/dwmac design.
> 
> The issue primarily affects arm-based systems. Currently known
> affected devices include all boards based on the Allwinner A20
> SoC (e.g. various Olimex A20-Olinuxino models, LeMaker Banana Pi
> and Banana Pro, Sinovoip Banana Pi M1, Cubietech Cubieboard2 and
> Cubietruck, LinkSprite pcDuino3).  As the stmmac/dwmac design is
> also used in other arm-based SoCs, it is expected that further
> devices will be affected as well.
> 
> Status: The issue has been fixed upstream in kernel 4.6 but the
> changes haven't yet been backported to the kernel 4.5.x stable
> series.  It is expected that the problem will be solved in Alpha
> 7 of the installer (either by the fix being backported to kernel
> 4.5 or by switching the installer to kernel 4.6).
> 
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Many thanks, I've just committed a slightly shorter version, hopefully
still accurate.

Regarding wml, that's basically html in this specific case.

FYI, the diff:
| --- errata.wml	10 Jan 2016 19:08:22 -0000	1.221
| +++ errata.wml	22 May 2016 22:16:26 -0000
| @@ -12,6 +12,21 @@
|  </p>
|  
|  <dl class="gloss">
| +     <dt>Wired Ethernet non-functional on certain arm-based systems</dt>
| +     <dd>The version 4.5 of the Linux kernel (included in the Stretch
| +     Alpha 6 release) introduced a regression in the stmmac/dwmac
| +     Ethernet driver
| +     (<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/823493">#823493</a>). This
| +     results in non-working wired ethernet on a number of systems
| +     whose Ethernet controller is based on the stmmac/dwmac design,
| +     which includes but is not limited to the following systems:
| +     various Olimex A20-Olinuxino models, LeMaker Banana Pi and Banana
| +     Pro, Sinovoip Banana Pi M1, Cubietech Cubieboard2 and Cubietruck,
| +     LinkSprite pcDuino3.
| +     <br />
| +     <b>Status:</b> Will likely be fixed in the following release.
| +     </dd>
| +
|       <dt>GNOME may fail to start with some virtual machine setups</dt>
|       <dd>It was noticed during Stretch Alpha 4 image testing that
|       GNOME might fail to start depending on the setup used for virtual

Thanks again.


KiBi.

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