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If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you! ** Tags added: verification-needed-vivid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1478513 Title: MFG:Firestone, Linux Error message: SYSPARAM: Opal sysparam node not found Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in linux source package in Vivid: Fix Committed Bug description: SRU Justification [Impact] When using Firestone POWER8 hardware, the following message gets printed to the kernel log: SYSPARAM: Opal sysparam node not found [Test Case] 1) Boot affected hardware. 2) dmesg | grep 'Opal sysparam node not found' [Fix] $ git describe --contains 38c0488770983b2654f075540cc1fc71f55b6df5 v4.2-rc1~135^2~144 -- == Comment: #0 - Application Cdeadmin <cdead...@us.ibm.com> - 2015-07-22 11:35:05 == == Comment: #1 - Application Cdeadmin <cdead...@us.ibm.com> - 2015-07-22 11:35:06 == ==== State: Open by: knodelk on 22 July 2015 10:25:15 ==== The following message is being posted to the linux message log on Firestone systems, and we need to know what action to take. - is this caused by a code bug that needs to be fixed? - does the message indicate a real hardware problem? or can the message be ignore? Until we here otherwise, manufacturing is ignoring this message dmesg --level=alert,crit,err SYSPARAM: Opal sysparam node not found system is running with the following code levels: ver 1.5.4.3 - OS, HTX, Firmware and Machine details OS: GNU/Linux OS Version: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS \n \l Kernel Version: 3.16.0-30-generic HTX Version: htxubuntu-343 == Comment: #2 - MAMATHA INAMDAR <mainam...@in.ibm.com> - 2015-07-27 06:18:20 == "SYSPARAM: Opal sysparam node not found" we get this warning on firestone system for every boot because For OpenPower BMC machines we do not place any sysparams in the device tree. This issue is addressed in the attached patch and patch is available in upstream. We need to backport following patch in ubuntu to address this issue. Commit ID:38c0488770983b2654f075540cc1fc71f55b6df5 0001-powerpc-powernv-Silence-SYSPARAM-warning-on-boot.patch == Comment: #3 - MAMATHA INAMDAR <mainam...@in.ibm.com> - 2015-07-27 06:25:34 == Please find upstream commit ID link https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=38c0488770983b2654f075540cc1fc71f55b6df5 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1478513/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
