Ubuntu18.10 - Update libocxl to version 1.1

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== Comment: #0 - Frederic Barrat <email address hidden> - 2018-08-31 04:32:02 ==
---Problem Description---
libocxl version 1.0 was introduced earlier in 18.10 (IBM bz 161265/LP 1771813).
libocxl could now be updated to version 1.1

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---uname output---

Machine Type = power9

---Debugger---
A debugger is not configured

== Comment: #1 - Frederic Barrat <email address hidden> - 2018-08-31 04:34:53 ==
The URL for libocxl is:
https://github.com/opencapi/libocxl

Version 1.1 was tagged recently (tag "1.1.0").

Is it still time to upgrade the recently introduced libocxl in 18.10 to that latest version? Thanks

[Frank Heimes (fheimes)]

Hi, what is exact the reason for upgrading libocxl again? Anything critical?
I ask because it was just updated to 1.0.0:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-power-systems/+bug/1771813
and the feature freeze and Debian import freeze for cosmic was already on August 23rd:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseSchedule

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2018-09-04 05:58 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #6)
> Hi, what is exact the reason for upgrading libocxl again? Anything critical?
> I ask because it was just updated to 1.0.0:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-power-systems/+bug/1771813
> and the feature freeze and Debian import freeze for cosmic was already on
> August 23rd:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseSchedule

Nothing critical, but since libocxl is fairly new, it's evolving quite fast. If there's still time, we'd like to upgrade it, so that it's closer to the latest on github.

Here is the changlog for the 1.1 release (the first item is what we really care about):
- Add support for POWER9 wake_host_thread/wait (requires a compiler with GNU extensions for inline assembler)
- Generate warnings on ignored return values
- Use opaque structs rather than void pointers for ocxl handles (this should be transparent to callers)
- Verified GCC 4-8 & Clang 3.6.2-6.0.1 produce correct machine code for OpenCAPI, and whitelisted them
- Verify & enforce that we compile with strict ANSI C (2011)

[Andrew Cloke (andrew-cloke)]

We're now past the Feature Freeze for 18.10. As this is not an urgent issue, we would plan to pick up this new version for 19.04.

[Frédéric Bonnard (frediz)]

Nevertheless, I've upgraded libocxl to 1.1 in Debian Unstable since linux 4.18 reached Unstable on September 6th.

F.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

This is a mostly bugfix release with only minor new features of a library package with no reverse-dependencies in the Ubuntu archive. Granting a feature freeze exception and I will sync this from Debian once it becomes visible to Launchpad.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

This bug was fixed in the package libocxl - 1.1.0-1

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libocxl (1.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fix d/gbp.conf
  * Update symbol file for 1.1.0
  * Update copyright information
  * Fix debhelper compatibility level
  * Bump Standards-Version

 -- Frédéric Bonnard <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Sep 2018 12:38:41 +0200

[Frédéric Bonnard (frediz)]

Thanks a lot Steve!