Bug 577354

Summary:	sys-kernel/gentoo-sources: get newer versions stable for hppa
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	SpanKY <vapier>
Component:	[OLD] Keywording and Stabilization	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	brendan, hppa, marci_r
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	STABLEREQ
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	HPPA
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70188
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	555238
Bug Blocks:	552336

Description SpanKY gentoo-dev

2016-03-14 04:00:27 UTC

the gentoo-sources ebuilds were marked -hppa by jer but with no information as to why, but the vanilla-sources ebuilds all remain ~hppa.  this needs to be documented.

it started with 4.0.5 here:
commit 47946d29978be5baf9b9bf957bee7d2840909dd1
Author: Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>
Date:   Mon Jun 29 06:38:26 2015 +0000

    Mark -hppa (bug #552336).

and then later all recent versions here:
commit e8d0f9ed453ae11662df6f03c7a2fb7f4e43544f
Author: Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>
Date:   Sat Jul 18 08:12:00 2015 +0000

    Mark -hppa.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-03-16 08:08:32 UTC

I am seeing a reliable and fast kernel for the first time in many months with

sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.5

A straightforward rebuild of binutils, glibc and gcc gave no segmentation faults or other anomalous memory accesses and it's now at package 162 of 740 of an `emerge --keep-going -e system` without any failing packages.

There seems to be an unresolved and recent issue with some SCSI controllers in 4.5 though. ("[BUG] "block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios" breaks boot on parisc-linux")

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-03-16 10:51:36 UTC

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources?id=ca9edba30c930e40ed5ba5c22d9b6776060c8f3a

The trouble is that the kernel people want only LTS releases marked stable, and will remove non-LTS ebuilds with stable markings, and will complain loudly.