[FFE] ship skiboot (opal-prd) 5.1.1
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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skiboot (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
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High
|
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre | ||
Vivid |
Fix Released
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High
|
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre |
Bug Description
[Impact]
Users of ppc64el POWER8 hardware / OPAL firmwares
[Test case]
Testing this software requires real POWER8 hardware.
1) Run opal-prd on a POWER8 system
2) Verify that the daemon runs and is listening on /dev/opal-prd (which needs to be provided by the kernel)
3) *TBD* (see below, firmware-provided code may be executed depending on received events)
[Regression Potential]
Minimal. This is hardware enablement software, not previously available in Ubuntu, which is done in cooperation with and at the request of the hardware manufacturer.
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This is a bug to track the inclusion of opal-prd package in Ubuntu. The plan is to add it initially for 15.10 and later backport it to 14.04 archive.
opal-prd is a daemon that listens for hardware diagnostic events (by listening on the /dev/opal-prd device), and executes firmware-
For now, the code lives inside https:/
opal-prd/skiboot is specific to ppc64el
affects: | linux (Ubuntu) → ubuntu |
Changed in ubuntu: | |
assignee: | nobody → Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl) |
Changed in skiboot (Ubuntu Vivid): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl) |
Here is a packaging for opal-prd based on what Jeremy Kerr did with some improvements. /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ linux/+ bug/1439562 . watch-may- check-gpg- signature .
As I understand, we need opal-prd kernel headers which is tracked in https:/
For the time being, Jeremy provided me a -linux-libc-dev .deb for 14.10 so I tested everything on 14.10 so far.
Here are the files attached. debian/changelog should be changed otherwise there should be no lintian, just a pedantic one for debian-