On Fri, 2025-03-28 at 16:16 +1100, Damien Stewart 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?
This bug was introduced in Debian Trixie which is not released yet. I assume that most users won't install their POWER servers with Debian Testing. > > 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. OK, but that's a different topic. > > 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. The patch is being reverted in Debian's kernel package now. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
