Ubuntu
powerpc-utils package

  1. Bug #2023243
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 2023243

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bugproxy (bugproxy) wrote : Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2023-07-11 11:38 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #27)
> @Ritu, so can you help with identifying the correct upstream commits that
> fix the issues mentioned?

There are hundreds of commits between version 1.3.4 and 1.3.11.
Backporting the relevant fixes will yield an unstable, untested
Frankenstein's monster.

powerpc-utils 1.3.4 is *ancient*. It was tagged in 2017. It was
two releases out-of-date when Ubuntu 20.04 was released in 2020.

Keeping Ubuntu 20.04 chained to powerpc-utils 1.3.4 is inhibiting
support for new hardware. Every new version of powerpc-utils adds
support for the latest POWER hardware. Version 1.3.4 does not
have complete support for POWER 9. It has no support for POWER 10,
and it will have no support for the forthcoming POWER 11.

Can we offer a separate version of the package as an option alongside
1.3.4?