Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports (2025-03-16)

(removing the bug tracker from CC again)

Hi Mathias,

On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 09:49 +0100, Mathias Parnaudeau wrote:
> On 26/03/2025 08:29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 07:47 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > > Yesterday I had the idea to modify the problematic patch [1] so that it applies
> > > on ppc64el only but not on powerpc and ppc64. This should at least fix the
> > > console problem.
> > I have opened two merge requests now:
> > 
> > - https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/1431
> > - https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/1432
> > 
> > This should fix the installer on powerpc and ppc64.
> 
> Great! Count on me to test the next image on various Apple machines.

Great, thank you.

> >   The installer is still
> > broken on ppc64el when installing on PowerKVM, but it seems that neither
> > Debian's kernel maintainers nor IBM developers upstream care about this
> > problem enough to actually fix it.
> 
> Hum ... annoying, but after all, if nobody uses it, at least let's start 
> making powerpc and power64 installers work again.

The regression affects the unreleased Debian Trixie release. I don't think
anyone is using this in production yet. People will notice it once they
try to install Debian Trixie on PowerKVM.

Adrian

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