Comment 35 for bug 1467542

> Sorry, I can't sponsor this in Debian, but I can probably find someone
> who could.

That'd be nice ; give him/her my mail if I can be of any help in that process.
In addition, I opened an ITP on Debian :
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=797987

Jeremy said linux 4.2 should have everything.
I see it's in experimental but not in unstable ; is that ok to start ?

> As for the backport to 14.04; the package is in the queue for Trusty,
> awaiting review by archive admins/SRU team.

I saw that on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+queue
Thanks!

F.

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> Title:
> [FFE] ship skiboot (opal-prd) 5.1.1
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> 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.
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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-
> 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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