Re: Bug#1085949: Installer regression on ppc64el under PowerKVM

Hi Aditi,

On Tue, 2025-01-07 at 14:12 +0530, Aditi Mishra wrote:
> Just to be informed, I can able to confirm that there are some patches 
> in debian that regressing this issue.
> 
> Can you share those patches ? Also, machine hangs at the time of 
> language selection or before only?

This particular patch [1] breaks the console output extremely early so that
debian-installer doesn't even show.

I have also observed that while removing this patch makes debian-installer
load, it also seems to hang during language selection. I have not figured
out yet what the reason for this hang is.

Adrian

> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/blob/debian/latest/debian/patches/bugfix/powerpc/fbdev-offb-Update-expected-device-name.patch?ref_type=heads

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