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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-06-28 06:53 EDT-------
Hello Canonical,

IBM is actively working on enhancing lshw to support ppc64le platform. Couple of our patches are already in upstream ... which is available in B.02.18 .. it was released sometime back [1][2].

[1] http://ezix.org/software/files/lshw-B.02.18.tar.gz
[2] https://github.com/lyonel/lshw.git

Also we have requested upstream maintainer to accept few more patches which are mostly specific to IBM Power System (like attached patch which provides FW information on PowerNV host).

Can you please rebase lshw to b.02.18 and apply attached patch?

-Vasant

------- Comment on attachment From <email address hidden> 2016-06-28 06:34 EDT-------

(applies cleanly on B.02.18 lshw tag)

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-08-02 11:51 EDT-------
Canonical - is there an outlook for including this or specific action you are waiting on IBM to take?

This bug was fixed in the package lshw - 02.18-0ubuntu1

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lshw (02.18-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release. Closes: #823639, #756921, #746616, #758550.
    - Refresh patches for unfortunate new upstream tarball layout.
    - debian/patches/cpuinfo-arm-aarch64-s390-support.patch,
      debian/patches/fix-endianness-problem-in-dev-tree-parsing.patch,
      debian/patches/ddr3-device-tree-support.patch,
      debian/patches/Do-not-brutally-merge-NICs-in-the-same-PCI-function-.patch,
      debian/patches/fat-inspection.patch,
      debian/patches/presumably-fix-653.patch,
      debian/patches/use-sysfs-for-DMI-info-when-available-696-666-664.patch:
      drop, included upstream.
    - Drop debian/patches/sparc.patch: no longer applies cleanly, and is
      incorrect (double header inclusion).
  * debian/patches/Parse-OPAL-firmware-properties-from-the-device-tree.patch:
    include support for displaying OPAL information on PowerNV systems.
    LP: #1585186.
  * debian/patches/fix-width-handling.patch: Fix regression in detecting
    platform width.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:42:04 -0700

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-08-16 00:14 EDT-------
Thanks Steve.

> This bug was fixed in the package lshw - 02.18-0ubuntu1

This contains couple of patches to enable Power System.

Is it possible to rebase 16.04 LTS release as well?

-Vasant

------- Comment (attachment only) From <email address hidden> 2016-08-19 06:44 EDT-------