Romain Perier's blog

Hi Planet, it is been a long time since my last post. Here is an update covering what I have been doing in my free software activities during May, June and July 2019. May Only contributions related to Debian were done in May  linux: Update to 5.1 (including porting of all debian patches to the new release) linux: Update to 5.1.2 linux: Update to 5.1.3 linux: Update to 5.1.5 firmware-nonfree: misc-nonfree: Add GV100 signed firmwares (Closes: #928672) June Debian linux: Update to 5.1.7 linux: Update to 5.1.8 linux: Update to 5.1.10 linux: Update to 5.1.11 linux: Update to 5.1.15 linux: [sparc64] Fix device naming inconsistency between sunhv_console and sunhv_reg (Closes: #926539) raspi3-firmware:  New upstream version 1.20190517 raspi3-firmware: New upstream version 1.20190620+1 Kernel Self Protection Project I have recently joined the kernel self protection protect, which basically intends to harden the mainline linux kernel the most as possible by a...

Hi, This is a summary of what I have done in April 2019 on Debian Changes I have uploaded raspi3-firmware 1.20190215-2 to sid I have bumped raspi3-firmware to 1.20190401-1 I have bumped the preempt_rt kernel to 4.19.37-rt19 in sid I have bumped the experimental kernel to 5.0.7 I have bumped the experimental preempt_rt kernel to 5.0.7-rt5 I have bumped the experimental kernel to 5.0.8 I have bumped the experimental kernel to 5.0.9 I have bumped the experimental kernel to 5.0.10  Issues I have removed extra binary files from the orig tarball in raspi3-firmware, this closes #924315  I have enabled support for the coreboot memconsole in kernel 5.0.x. It has been backported into sid and should be part of buster. This closes bug #872069

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 u...

Introducing myself My name is Romain, I have been nominated to the status of  Debian Maintainer recently. I am part of the debian-kernel team (still a padawan) since few months, and, as a DM, I will co-maintain the package raspi3-firmware with Gunnar Wolf. Current contributions As a kernel and linux en enginner, I focus on embedded stuffs and kernel development. This is a summary of what I have done in the previous months. Kernel team As a contributor, I work a various things, I try to work where help is the more needed. I have wrote a python script for generating debian changelog in firmware-nonfree, I have bumped the package for new releases. I bump the linux kernel for new upstream releases, I help to close and resolve bugs, I backport new features when it makes sense for doing so, enable new hardware and recently I have added  new flavour for the RPI 1 and RPI Zero in armel ! (spoil) Raspi3-firmware I have recently added a new mode in the configuration file o...