Re: Linux-libre 5.8 and beyond

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2020-08-08, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2020-08-08, Mark H. Weaver wrote:
>> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote:
>>> I saw the 5.8 was out, and gave a quick shot at updating it, but it hung
>>> python indefinitely during the deblobbing process.
>>
>> I was unable to reproduce this problem.  I simply added version 5.8 in
>> the usual way, without changing the deblobbing code at all, and the
>> deblobbing process worked correctly on my Thinkpad X200 (x86_64-linux).
>
> Curious. At a quick glance it looks like the same hashes for linux and
> the deblob and scripts that I used.

At a longer glance, it looks like I failed to update the hashes
correctly. The hashes for deblob-check 5.7 and deblob-check 5.8 both
began with "1n" and I must have somehow glazed over the differences and
not updated the local commit.

How guix actually managed to download deblob-check 5.8 from a different
URL and proceed to attempt to use the "old" store item without noticing
the hash was different still remains a mystery to me... I would have
expected it to error out before getting that far.


> I encountered the issue both on a
> pinebook pro (aarch64) and a ~6 year old i5 (x86_64) laptop, which I
> figured were different enough that it was a problem in the code...
>
>
>> I pushed commit cb97d076491495aa956dbff93679a51cc5708010 to 'master',
>> which adds the linux-libre@5.8 source and headers packages.  You should
>> be able to build the deblobbed and patched source with the following
>> command:
>>
>>   guix build -S -e '(@ (gnu packages linux) linux-libre-5.8-source)'
>>
>> Does it work for you?  If so, how does it differ from what you tried
>> before?
>
> Will try to test again sometime in the coming days.

in progress...


live well,
  vagrant

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