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

    From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz on Wed Mar 26 08:30:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.ports.powerpc

    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. 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.

    See the discussion in [1].

    Adrian

    [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1085949

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  • From Mathias Parnaudeau@21:1/5 to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz on Wed Mar 26 11:50:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.ports.powerpc

    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

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