Comment 15 for bug 6816

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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:30:56 +1000
From: Herbert Xu <email address hidden>
To: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#253787: Debian patch to PCI initialization code on alpha has
 caused longstanding, widespread brokenness

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 11:51:19PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Package: kernel-source-2.4.26
> Version: 2.4.26-2
> Severity: grave
>
> The Debian kernel image packages for alpha have been wholly unusable on
> a large number of hardware configurations for probably half a year now,
> dating back to around 2.4.21. Peter De Schrijver has tracked this
> problem down to a broken *Debian-specific* patch in the kernel images.

Yes this has already been identified in #241185.

> Please immediately revert the patch to arch/alpha/kernel/core_cia.c in
> the kernel-source package. There is no documentation in the

Well if you or someone else can provide a place for me to upload
fixed packages to then I can build one with this as well as the
i387 crash bug fixed.

> kernel-patch changelog or README.Debian that explains what problem this
> patch was intended to solve, so I can't guarantee that reverting it

You'll find the reason in debian/changelog if you search for core_cia.
In any case, the original bug that prompted this is no longer there
so it can be safely reverted.

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