RE: Debian Stretch support for Intel Denverton CPUs

[<Clifford.Wichmann@dell.com>]

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Thanks for the response Ben.  We will ask the intel folks to provide those details to you.


Sean and Chris,

Can you help provide the details to Ben and the debian-kernel mailing list?

Essentially details of which Kernel supports the Intel Denverton CPU, details about the Denverton CPU and the Kernel config that you submitted to Kernel.org that supports the Intel Denverton CPU?


Cheers,
Cliff




-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:ben@decadent.org.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 3:37 PM
To: Wichmann, Clifford <Clifford_Wichmann@Dell.com>; debian-kernel@lists.debian.org
Cc: Ghalam, Joe <Joe_Ghalam@Dell.com>
Subject: Re: Debian Stretch support for Intel Denverton CPUs

On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 20:20 +0000, Clifford.Wichmann@dell.com wrote:
> Just wondering if the kernel for Debian Stretch will support the Intel 
> Denverton CPU?
> 
> 
> 
> We have tried the Debian Stretch as of two weeks ago on a board 
> provided by Intel but it currently hangs on boot.

I don't know what a Denverton CPU is.  The Internet tells me it's an Atom-family processor for servers.  If it needs changes that went into
4.10 or 4.11, then we'll have to backport those.  If you can provide references to such changes that would be helpful.

Ben.

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