------- Comment From [email protected] 2017-03-10 04:16 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #10)
> This is fine for inclusion in 17.04, but to SRU it into 16.04 we would need
> more information about why, specifically, this is needed.  Is opal-prd
> unstable? Are there specific cases where it's known to crash?

opal-prd is not unstable and is not known to crash either. We need opal-
prd to be running all the time on OPAL based systems for all Processor
Runtime Diagnostics for POWER systems barring which, in the event of any
hardware failures (Memory UEs, core/nest errors, etc)., the hardware
components will not be isolated at the next IPL (reboot), causing the
machine to potentially not boot successfully at all.

In order to avoid such a scenario, we would:
a. Want opal-prd to be installed and started by default on all Distributions 
running OPAL (Debian/Ubuntu included). 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skiboot/+bug/1555904 is intended to 
address this issue.
b. Want systemd to restart the daemon if it stops for whatever reason (even a 
kill -9 by an ignorant superuser) and that is the purpose of this bug

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