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

On 27/3/25 12:59 am, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Not just Apple OpenFirmware, but also PowerKVM. When you try to install
> Debian on a ppc64el KVM instance you won't get a console output either.
>
> An engineer from IBM wanted to look into it, but it took him forever to
> reproduce the problem and it also seemed that he wasn't really interested
> in fixing this problem.
Okay, I can understand for Apple, but I expected a PowerKVM instance to 
be more prevalent. So it seems as if no one needs to install Debian into 
a new KVM right now?
> I assume that we will just have to wait until Trixie has been released
> and people start reporting this issue when they are switching to Trixie.
> I have no clue why I'm not being able to convince anyone to fix this problem
> even though it's clearly a bug.
I've noticed changes to standards causing issues, such as the change 
requiring child nodes in device trees to have size properties, which I 
got caught up in.
> For what is worth, the patch that Debian's kernel package is currently
> carrying was even rejected upstream because of the very problem it had
> with hard-wiring the name in such an incompatible way.

Would be good if this solved itself by being rejected then. But I wonder 
if it the prom init code needs changing to account for it if the problem 
persists? I was reading some particular code that avoids closing OF 
handles as it causes trouble on some Apple models when Quiescing. Looks 
like prom_init.c is popular for all these fixup patches.



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My regards,

Damien Stewart.