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

2025-04-05 Thread Damien Stewart
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

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

2025-04-05 Thread Damien Stewart
On 26/3/25 5:47 pm, 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. Adrian [1]https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/blob/debian/la

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

2025-03-28 Thread Damien Stewart
On 28/3/25 4:51 pm, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: 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. No and since they would use a supported arch, ppc64LE, my emphasis on the LE, they don't need

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

2025-03-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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 > > repro

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

2025-03-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Thu, 2025-03-27 at 00:47 +1100, Damien Stewart wrote: > So, I've been reading about this patch, trying to find out the > purpose of changing the property name. I'm wondering why fbdev > offb code is failing to find the display, as all changes look > they are within offb. So, IIUC, the kernel fbd

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

2025-03-26 Thread David VANTYGHEM
I voted on https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/1431 and https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/143 If other people vote, perhaps it will help? Le 26/03/2025 à 09:49, Mathias Parnaudeau a écrit : Hi Adrian On 26/03/2025 08:29, John Paul Adrian Gla

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

2025-03-26 Thread Mathias Parnaudeau
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 con

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

2025-03-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
(removing the bug tracker from CC again) Hi Mathias, On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 09:49 +0100, Mathias Parnaudeau wrote: > 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 t

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

2025-03-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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: - htt

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

2025-03-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Mathias, On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 22:45 +0100, Mathias Parnaudeau wrote: > I tested the installation on this machine with image 2024-12-24 and > after the partitioning, in another console, mount shows the hfs > partition, what is not the case with image 2025-03-16. You're right. I forgot to man

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

2025-03-25 Thread Mathias Parnaudeau
On 21/03/2025 22:20, Mathias Parnaudeau wrote: Hi Adrian On 18/03/2025 14:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello, I have build updated installation images for Debian Ports. If you run into any issue or have question, please let me know. To start, I chose to test this new image (thanks f

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

2025-03-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Mathias, On Mon, 2025-03-24 at 11:14 +0100, Mathias Parnaudeau wrote: > On 18/03/2025 14:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > There are more bugs and TODO items that affect Debian Ports architectures, > > I have listed them at [3]. > > I tested the ppc64 image on PowerMac G5 (dual core) an

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

2025-03-24 Thread Mathias Parnaudeau
Hello On 18/03/2025 14:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: There are more bugs and TODO items that affect Debian Ports architectures, I have listed them at [3]. I tested the ppc64 image on PowerMac G5 (dual core) and it fails as mentioned in the notes: debian-installer not booting on Power

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

2025-03-21 Thread Mathias Parnaudeau
Hi Adrian On 18/03/2025 14:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello, I have build updated installation images for Debian Ports. If you run into any issue or have question, please let me know. To start, I chose to test this new image (thanks for this update) on MacMini G4. On this machine,