[Bug 1701698] Re: update skiboot to 5.4.3 in xenial

[Brian Murray]

Hello bugproxy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted skiboot into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skiboot/5.4.3-1ubuntu0.16.04.1 in a
few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from
verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, details of your
testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: skiboot (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-xenial

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Title:
  update skiboot to 5.4.3 in xenial

Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project:
  New
Status in skiboot package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in skiboot source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  skiboot is a hardware enablement component used by certain POWER systems and should be kept up-to-date on LTS releases. The new upstream version of skiboot is required for xenial to support the new POWER9 systems.
  The new upstream version update was requested by upstream and includes only hardware enablement changes and bugfixes, making it an ideal case for a new microrelease backport.

  [Test Case]

  On a supported system, upgrade opal-prd and opal-utils. Reboot and
  verify that system works as expected. Verify that the opal-prd service
  is running with `systemctl status opal-prd`, make sure there are no
  worrying error messages in the logs.

  [Regression Potential]

  Any new upstream release can introduce potential regressions. The opal-prd service is used for diagnostics and runtime maintenance of POWER systems, meaning a critical regression can cause the system being unusable.
  The requested release is in zesty since the end of May 2017 and no critical issues have been reported so far. Also, seeing that the package is still in universe and only targets specific ppc64el hardware, in the case of a regression the number of affected users should be relatively low.

  [Original Description]

  Dear Canonical,

  Current skiboot version on Xenial is not enough to full support POWER9
  machines, and the backport is not trivial, since it involves a lot of
  commit,

  We would like to migrate skiboot version 5.4.3, from Zesty into
  xenial-updates, if possible.

  Thank you,

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