| 09:32 | heap_> | Artox: ? |
| 09:32 | Humpelst1lzchen> | Any chance for Spectre fixes for i.MX6 kernels? |
| 09:39 | Ke> | Humpelst1lzchen: can't you use upstream kernel? |
| 09:49 | Humpelst1lzchen> | Ke: freescale upstream? Do they have the dtbs? |
| 09:49 | jnettlet[m]> | Humpelst1lzchen: ARM is releasing more information tomorrow. We have working code that demonstrates the vulnerability however the only existing patches that have been released are for Aarch64 and x86 |
| 09:50 | Humpelst1lzchen> | jnettlet[m]: great |
| 09:50 | jnettlet[m]> | Google has some fixes for all architectures in their latest security patch for Android but those changes have not been released to AOSP yet. |
| 09:51 | jnettlet[m]> | so fixes are needed, and I am closing tracking the work being done. It will be a busy week but my plan is to get fixes pushed for all our platforms as soon as there is a good general consensus that they are the proper fixes. |
| 09:52 | Humpelst1lzchen> | good luck then |
| 09:52 | jnettlet[m]> | I will also benchmark general workloads and do a writeup on what I find. |
| 10:18 | Ke> | jnettlet[m]: I guess mcbin is not "your" platform here? |
| 10:19 | jnettlet[m]> | Ke: we have reached out Marvell and are waiting to hear about their strategy. If I don't hear anything by end of day tomorrow, then I will also release patched repositories for the ATF and kernel. |
| 10:20 | Ke> | thanks |
| 10:20 | Ke> | kernel is of no interest though |
| 10:21 | Ke> | I would obviously hope that ATF would be of no interest either, but upstreaming there is quite a bit further aawy |
| 10:21 | Ke> | away |
| 10:21 | Ke> | kernel with version number 4.4.52 or whatever looks absolutely scary anyway, no matter which fixes are backported |
| 10:24 | Ke> | I started planning arduino watchdog btw. https://users.aalto.fi/~jkarlson/files/arduino.svg |
| 10:25 | Ke> | though I need 5V inputs for the arduino, so I'll perhaps use 5V from molex for the buttons |
| 10:26 | Ke> | also I am unsure whether 5V signal from arduino can control the presumably 12V reset on mcbin |
| 10:26 | Ke> | with FET |
| 10:29 | Ke> | arduino seems to have almost everything I need anyway |
| 10:30 | Ke> | btw. buying molex connectors is about the hardest things in electronics |
| 10:51 | Ke> | also FET requires pullup |
| 11:36 | Artox> | heap_, sorry, sadly not. Maybe suihkulokki can update us if he looked into getting dove support enabled |
| 11:38 | Artox> | it really is just a matter of adding to a) debian-installer, and b) kernel .config; both of which have patches available |
| 11:39 | Artox> | I just haven't figured out how to speed up getting those into debian, yet. |
| 13:04 | suihkulokki> | Artox, heap_, had a look earlier but forgot about it |
| 13:05 | suihkulokki> | Artox: the only potential problem is, that this add some size into vmlinuz, and kernel size is limited on some platforms |
| 13:07 | Ke> | isn't the point to put the extra drivers to modules and load the necessary ones from initrd? |
| 13:07 | Ke> | just like on x86? |
| 13:07 | suihkulokki> | Artox: btw the D-I boot hang is solved with https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10146687/ |
| 13:09 | suihkulokki> | Ke: yes, but some things can't be modules. The cpu on Dove cubox is different enough that some low-level bits need to added to the kernel. |
| 13:09 | Ke> | ok |
| 13:12 | suihkulokki | 13:12 * suihkulokki wished a public TRM for Armada 8K existed |
| 13:16 | jnettlet[m]> | suihkulokki: hopefully it will get released this millenium :) Getting anything through Marvell's legal department is a very slow tedious process. Took nearly a year for the a38x reference |
| 14:37 | Artox> | suihkulokki, Hmm :( is debian in a situation where this issue has already surfaced on a platform? |
| 14:37 | Artox> | and then wouldn't that limited platform deserve its own kernel flavour? |
| 14:38 | Artox> | anyway, should I do anything to push debian on dove forward? |
| 14:39 | Artox> | imo it works far too well with mainline to ignore |
| 14:42 | Artox> | suihkulokki, so we need a patched DTB? |
| 14:42 | Artox> | looks like it is worth switching to the mainline dtb |
| 14:47 | suihkulokki> | Artox: I'll propose Dove/Debian once the main kernel developers have time from meltdown/spectre crisis |
| 14:47 | Artox> | Hah, sure, thanks |
| 14:54 | Ke> | jnettlet[m]: so they are going to release? |
| 16:09 | jnettlet[m]> | Ke: no guarantees |
| 16:09 | jnettlet[m]> | hopefully |