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.
