Bug#1085949: Updated installation images for Debian Ports (2025-03-16)

Hi Adrian

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.


>   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.


Mathias