bug#22274: epochfail

[Leo Famulari]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 07:19:43AM +0000, Francis Rowe wrote:
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> <francis7> mark_weaver, can you (and also inform others of this) check
> what it says on https://libreboot.org/faq/#epochfail

This relates to the bug whereby the hwclock always thinks it is
1970-01-01. 

> <francis7> Quote: "This seems to be an issue in Linux kernel version
> 4.3 and higher, though it may also affect older releases. We know that
> it does not affect Linux kernel version 3.13 (the one used in Trisquel
> 7, which many libreboot developers and users use). A bisect of the
> upstream linux kernel Git repository is in order, so that we can find
> out which commit introduced this issue."
> <francis7> Can you try said bisect?
> <francis7> If not, can you talk to a few others and suggest the same?
> <francis7> I ask, since you use Libreboot on a system that is affected
> <francis7> We need to know which kernel commit caused this, as a
> necessary prerequisite for a fix upstream (kernel.org)
> <lfam> francis7: You might also try emailing address@hidden
> That is the bug tracker for our related bug:
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22274
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