My work on Debian (March 2019)

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This is a summary of what I have done in March 2019 on Debian (well, a bit late)

Changes

  • I have bumped linux to 4.19.27 in sid, see commit
  • I have bumped linux to 4.19.28 in sid, see commit
  • I have bumped linux to 5.0.5 in master, see commit
  • I have bumped ethtool to 5.0, see  commit

New features

  • I have re-worked the commit to get support for Raspberry PI 1 and Raspberry PI Zero for armel mergeable in the Linux kernel, see commit
  • Patch for enabling support for CRASH_DUMP for armel and armhf was merged, see commit 
  • Patch for enabling support for STRICT_MODULE_RWX in the Linux kernel was merged, see commit

Issues

  • Changed raspi3-firmware to make the consoles easily configurable in cmdline.txt, this closes bug #926325, see commit
  • Changed raspi3-firmware to use arm_64bit instead of the arm_control bitfields for controlling 64bits mode, this closes bug #925062, see commit   
  •  Switched raspi3-firmware to use package.maintscript, that solves lintian warnings, see commit

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