XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot

Package: installation-reports

Boot method: USB key with "debian-trixie-DI-rc1-ppc64el-DVD-1.iso"
Image version: <https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ppc64el/iso-dvd/debian-testing-ppc64el-DVD-1.iso>
Date: <19-05-2025>

Machine: <TN71-BP012>
Processor:IBM POWER8 Turismo
Memory:512GB


Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [O]
Configure network:      [O]
Detect media:           [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:    [O]
Install tasks:          [O]
Install boot loader:    [O]
Overall install:        [O]

Comments/Problems:
Installation was smooth, didn't have have to use serial console (use screen, keyboard and mouse directly plug in computer, that's very good)
when booting installed system some complains in the logs from Opal and kernel but it works very well:
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[    2.995417] SED: plpks not available
pci 0000:01:00.0: Don't support SR-IOV with non M64 VF BAR0: [mem 0x00000000-0x0001ffff]. 
pci 0000:01:00.1: Don't support SR-IOV with non M64 VF BAR0: [mem 0x00000000-0x0001ffff]. 
SED: plpks not available
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opal: OPAL_CONSOLE_FLUSH missing.
WARNING: CPU: 61 PID: 1 at arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c:530 __opal_flush_console+0x10c/0x120
Modules linked in:
CPU: 61 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/56 Not tainted 6.12.27-powerpc64le #1  Debian 6.12.27-1
Hardware name: TN71-BP012       POWER8 (raw) 0x4d0200 opal:skiboot-5.0.4 PowerNV
NIP:  c0000000000c320c LR: c0000000000c3208 CTR: c000000000fd4350
REGS: c000000002bc72e0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (6.12.27-powerpc64le Debian 6.12.27-1)
MSR:  9000000000021033 <SF,HV,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 28002282  XER: 00000000 CFAR: c0000000001402b0 IRQMASK: 1 
GPR00: c0000000000c3208 c000000002bc7580 c0000000018f9100 0000000000000021  GPR04: 00000000ffffbfff c000000002bc7290 c000000002bc7288 0000007ff330e000  GPR08: 0000000000000027 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000002200  GPR12: c000007ffe24e528 c000007fff780980 c000000000011208 0000000000000000  GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c0000000027a1840  GPR20: c000000002547b38 c0000000028590f8 0000000000000000 c0000000027c1b58  GPR24: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c000000002636f40 0000000000000000  GPR28: 0000000000000000 c000000002bc7880 0000000000000000 0000000000000000  NIP [c0000000000c320c] __opal_flush_console+0x10c/0x120
LR [c0000000000c3208] __opal_flush_console+0x108/0x120
Call Trace:
[c000000002bc7580] [c0000000000c3208] __opal_flush_console+0x108/0x120 (unreliable)
[c000000002bc7600] [c0000000000c4130] opal_flush_chars+0x30/0xd0 [c000000002bc7630] [c000000000ab5a28] hvc_console_print+0x218/0x320 [c000000002bc7750] [c0000000001f6e04] console_flush_all+0x394/0x4d0 [c000000002bc7850] [c0000000001f7024] console_unlock+0xe4/0x1f0 [c000000002bc78d0] [c0000000001f8308] vprintk_emit+0x288/0x400 [c000000002bc7950] [c0000000001f9e54] vprintk+0x44/0xa0
[c000000002bc7980] [c0000000001f96c4] _printk+0x40/0x54
[c000000002bc79a0] [c0000000000fc3b0] plpks_init_var+0x230/0x260 [c000000002bc7a10] [c0000000000fc460] sed_read_key+0x80/0x190 [c000000002bc7ad0] [c00000000205a0b8] sed_opal_init+0xac/0x174 [c000000002bc7c50] [c000000000010b50] do_one_initcall+0x80/0x3b0 [c000000002bc7d30] [c000000002004974] kernel_init_freeable+0x340/0x3e4 [c000000002bc7df0] [c000000000011230] kernel_init+0x30/0x1a0
[c000000002bc7e50] [c00000000000de3c] ret_from_kernel_user_thread+0x14/0x1c
--- interrupt: 0 at 0x0
Code: 60420000 3be0fffe 4bffff90 60000000 60420000 3c62ffa0 39200001 3d4200d8 38638818 992a3da1 4807cfc5 60000000 <0fe00000> 4bffff4c 48f17dc5 60000000 
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
device-mapper: core: CONFIG_IMA_DISABLE_HTABLE is disabled. Duplicate IMA measurements will not be recorded in the IMA log.
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/dev/mapper/tyanP8--vg-root: clean, 118350/14778368 files, 2248440/59094016 blocks
systemd[1]: bpf-restrict-fs: Failed to link program; assuming BPF LSM is not available.
Kernel attempted to read user page (0) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)[   43.894640] Kernel attempted to read user page (0) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
[   43.894654] BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000000 [   43.894660] Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000000c949c
[   43.894665] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
[   43.894671] LE PAGE_SIZE=4K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV