FOSS activity in July 2025
In July I attended DebCamp and DebConf in Brest, France. I very much enjoyed the opportunity to reconnect with other Debian contributors in person. I had a number of interesting and fruitful conversations there, besides the formally organised BoFs and talks.
I also gave my own talk on What’s new in the Linux kernel (and what’s missing in Debian).
Here’s the usual categorisation of activity:
- Debian packages:
- firmware-nonfree:
- Bugs:
- replied to #1093084: firmware-amd-graphics: Some graphical glitches and occasional stuttering with AMD graphics
- closed #1100723: firmware-misc-nonfree: ralink firmware disapears after upgrade due backport firmware-misc-free split in multiple packages
- replied to and closed #1108250: firmware-intel-graphics: i915 timeout errors after firmware upgrade
- replied to and reassigned #1108599: firmware-linux-free: please add support MT7921/MT7925 WIFI Combo Cards
- replied to #1109015: Wifi not working anymore with new atheros firmware from experimental
- Uploads:
- uploaded version 20250627-1 to experimental
- uploaded version 20250708-1 to experimental
- Bugs:
- initramfs-tools:
- Bugs:
- Merge requests:
- reviewed !172: Use 3cpio for unmkinitramfs/lsinitramfs if available
- reviewed and merged !179: update-initramfs: add copyright information
- opened and merged !180: hook-functions: Add Cadence USB driver to base
- reviewed !182: unmkinitramfs: handle both uppercase and lowercase hex numbers
- ktls-utils:
- Uploads:
- uploaded version 1.2.1-1 to experimental
- Uploads:
- kup:
- lintian:
- linux:
- Bugs:
- closed #763547: firmware-linux: please include ihex2fw tool into one of linux-* packages
- closed #1016718: binfmt_elf: May fail to load executable with no static data next to BSS
- replied to #1035878: rpi400: visual speckling on ‘faulty’ HDMI port during mouse movement
- closed #1056357: general: on hppa, command line of any program invocation is limited to less than 3544 bytes
- replied to #1086638: linux-image-6.11.5: usbguard-daemon invalid opcode: 0000, usb’s not usable
- closed #1092931: Most recent kernel is causing issues with touchpad function.
- replied to #1102175: Repeated lockups in AMDGPU DRM driver
- replied to #1102522: linux-image-6.12.21-amd64: Fails to suspend Acer TravelMate Spin B311R-31
- replied to #1104165: linux-image-6.12.22-amd64: Freezing with ‘amdgpu_dm_plane_helper_prepare_fb bind failed’ some time after returning from suspend
- replied to #1104670: linux-image-6.12.25-amd64: system does not shut down - GHES: Fatal hardware error
- replied to #1107479: util-linux: blkid hangs forever after inserting a DVD-RAM
- replied to #1107785: CLOCK_MONOTONIC increases in s2idle, triggering watchdogs, killing processes
- replied to #1108037: linux-perf: perf report –demangle only works on some(?) symbols
- replied to #1108168: linux-image-6.12.32-amd64: black screen, then crash in nouveau when rebooting
- replied to #1108294: kernel 6.12 breaks cgroup awareness of openjdk 21
- closed #1108430: Kernel Regression between 6.1.0-35 and 6.1.0-37: IPv6 link-local multicast over GRE tunnel is silently dropped
- replied to #1108496: linux-image-6.12.30+bpo-amd64: USB audio glitches: retire_capture_urb
- replied to #1108965: linux: Enable RTL8851BE module
- replied to #1109038: breaks with rtl8139 network interface via usb
- replied to and closed #1109040: Subject: linux-headers-6.1.0-37-amd64 missing config files; cannot build external modules on Bookworm
- replied to #1109666: Fails to boot on Marvell Armada 385
- replied to #1109776: Support for non-4kB pages in Xe driver
- replied to #1109891: hyperv-daemons no longer available for bullseye/arm64
- Merge requests:
- merged !1502: Add linux-misc-tools package for bootconfig, ihex2fw, thermometer, and tmon
- reviewed !1542: 6.1 stable updates
- reviewed !1543: Draft: [arm64] Provide an installer package for usbgadget usage
- reviewed !1560: [arm64] Enable Qualcomm RB1 boards
- reviewed and merged !1565: [cloud] Enable SATA_AHCI
- opened and merged !1569: Update to 6.16-rc5
- opened !1570: rtw89: Enable RTW89_8851BE, RTW89_8852BTE as modules
- opened !1571: rtw88: Enable RTW88_8821AU, RTW88_8812AU, RTW88_8814AE, RTW88_8814AU as modules
- opened !1572: Revert “cgroup: Do not report unavailable v1 controllers in /proc/cgroups”
- opened !1573: hyperv-daemons: Fix and install the sample network info scripts
- opened !1576: Clean up tools build
- merged !1580: Update to 6.16-rc6
- merged !1586: Update to 6.16-rc7
- opened !1587: binder: Add module description, fixing warning from modpost
- opened !1588: linux-misc-tools: Fix FTBFS on sparc64
- reviewed !1591: Move all package specific build-deps
- Uploads:
- uploaded version 6.12.33-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
- uploaded version 6.12.35-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
- uploaded version 6.12.38-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
- uploaded version 6.16~rc7-1~exp1 to experimental
- (LTS) Updated the bullseye-security branch, but did not upload
it:
- updated to upstream version 5.10.240
- enabled building hyperv-daemons for arm64
- Bugs:
- (LTS) linux-6.1:
- Uploads:
- uploaded version 6.1.140-1~deb11u1 to bullseye-security
- Uploads:
- linux-base:
- nfs-utils:
- sbuild:
- wireless-regdb:
- Uploads:
- uploaded version 2025.07.10-1 to unstable
- (LTS) Prepared backports of the above version to bookworm and bullseye-security
- Uploads:
- firmware-nonfree:
- Debian non-package bugs:
- Mailing lists:
- cgroups:
- debian-boot:
- debian-devel:
- debian-kernel:
- linux-block:
- linux-firmware:
- linux-pci:
- linux-pm:
- linux-rt-users:
- posted PREEMPT_RT vs i915
- linux-sh:
- linux-trace-kernel:
- posted and replied to [PATCH] bootconfig: Fix unaligned access when building footer
- stable: