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[dann frazier <dann.frazier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sure Colin, I'll take it from here - thanks for your analysis so far. As
a next step, I'll wait for Ethan - or someone else w/ hw access - to
verify the PPA build in Comment #12.

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #946911
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=946911

** Also affects: dmidecode (Debian) via
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=946911
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Also affects: dmidecode (Ubuntu Eoan)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: dmidecode (Ubuntu Focal)
   Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Colin Ian King (colin-king)
       Status: In Progress

** Also affects: dmidecode (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: dmidecode (Ubuntu Focal)
     Assignee: Colin Ian King (colin-king) => (unassigned)

** Changed in: dmidecode (Ubuntu Eoan)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => dann frazier (dannf)

** Changed in: dmidecode (Ubuntu Bionic)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => dann frazier (dannf)

** Changed in: dmidecode (Ubuntu Eoan)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: dmidecode (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: dmidecode (Ubuntu Focal)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  dmidecode triggers system reboot on Inforce 6640

Status in cloud-init:
  Invalid
Status in dmidecode package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in dmidecode source package in Bionic:
  In Progress
Status in dmidecode source package in Eoan:
  In Progress
Status in dmidecode source package in Focal:
  Fix Released
Status in dmidecode package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Device: Inforce 6640
  https://www.inforcecomputing.com/products/single-board-computers-sbc/qualcomm-snapdragon-820-inforce-6640-sbc
  SoC: Snapdragon 820

  sysname='Linux',
  nodename='ubuntu',
  release='4.15.0-1069-snapdragon', 
  version='#76-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 26 16:10:14 UTC 2019', 
  machine='aarch64'

  The issue is caused by following commit.
  Inforce 6640 doesn't have functional demidecode.
  System will reboot when executing dmidecode.

  commit 3416e2ee7f65defdb15aab861a85767d13e8c34c
  Author: Robert Schweikert <rjschwei@xxxxxxxx>
  Date: Sat Oct 29 09:29:53 2016 -0400
      dmidecode: Allow dmidecode to be used on aarch64
      aarch64 systems have functional dmidecode, so allow that to be used.
      - aarch64 has support for dmidecode as well

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