Comment 32 for bug 1467542

Mathieu, thanks a bunch for this.
On the Debian side, it would be nice to push for it.
Do you have the possibility to sponsor that ?
Jeremy, I know that there are some needs on the kernel side, but there is a 4.2
in experimental, would it be enough ?

Fred

On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:14:37 -0000, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> wrote:
> skiboot (5.1.1-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium
>
> * New upstream release.
> * Dropped patches; applied upstream:
> - 0001-external-gard-add-Makefile-targets-to-make-debian-pa.patch
> - 0001-Honor-compilation-flags-passed-from-the-environment.patch
> - 0001-Fixes-for-compilation-with-Werror.patch
> * debian/patches/uninitialized_uses.patch: fix up uninitialized variables
> that make our build fail
>
> ** Changed in: skiboot (Ubuntu)
> Status: In Progress => Fix Released
>
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> Title:
> [FFE] ship skiboot (opal-prd) 5.1.1
>
> Status in skiboot package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in skiboot source package in Trusty:
> In Progress
>
> 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.
>
> ---
>
> 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-
> providedexecutable code to handle these events.
>
> For now, the code lives inside https://github.com/open-
> power/skiboot/tree/master/external/opal-prd.
>
> opal-prd/skiboot is specific to ppc64el
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