Comment 37 for bug 2038249

Today, I tackled the Mantic debdiff (made only a few changes; below).

It's now currently building in a PPA for all supported architectures,
(ppa:mfo/lp2038249) and if all goes well I will upload it to Mantic.

Thanks!
Mauricio

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All 24 commits are included in Noble (12 in 8.0.4 and 12 in 8.0.3).
changelog OK
DEP3 tags OK

I reviewed each commit, with the exception of the big code additions
(patches 8,16: for maple tree and module memory layout): all look OK.

I fixed up patch 24, which is originally 2 trivial and short changes,
but had like ~3800 lines of indentation/formatting changes included
(certainly this wasn't intented, and mistakes happen; so I fixed it).

 $ git show 55a43bcefa20161c7e56ed0e309e90e941f47efc | wc -l
 57

 $ wc -l debian/patches/lp2038249-0024-Fix-compilation-error-and-warning-with-gcc-4.8.5.patch
 3865 debian/patches/lp2038249-0024-Fix-compilation-error-and-warning-with-gcc-4.8.5.patch

We can all learn from this -- I will check .patch files with diffstat!

I also just augmented backport notes (thanks for those) to indicate
which functions/hunks had context lines modified/adjusted/refreshed,
since the patch is big (patch 15), and clarify variables (not) used.

 -+[chengen - modify x86_64.c context]
 ++[chengen - modify context in x86_64.c: x86_64_ORC_init() and x86_64_get_framesize()]

 -+[chengen - initialize init_tss to zero in xen_hyper.c]
 ++[chengen - initialize only init_tss to zero in xen_hyper.c (there is no stack_base yet)]

Very importantly, the detailed test plan will be key to validate the
changes are working correctly, considering their number and size.
Thanks again for it!