Bug#1085949: Installer regression on ppc64el under PowerKVM

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Subject	Bug#1085949: Installer regression on ppc64el under PowerKVM
Date	Tue, 07 Jan 2025 10:00:01 +0100
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Hi Aditi,

On Tue, 2025-01-07 at 14:12 +0530, Aditi Mishra wrote:
> Just to be informed, I can able to confirm that there are some patches 
> in debian that regressing this issue.
> 
> Can you share those patches ? Also, machine hangs at the time of 
> language selection or before only?

This particular patch [1] breaks the console output extremely early so that
debian-installer doesn't even show.

I have also observed that while removing this patch makes debian-installer
load, it also seems to hang during language selection. I have not figured
out yet what the reason for this hang is.

Adrian

> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/blob/debian/latest/debian/patches/bugfix/powerpc/fbdev-offb-Update-expected-device-name.patch?ref_type=heads

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Bug#1085949: Installer regression on ppc64el under PowerKVM Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2024-10-23 22:50 +0200
  Bug#1085949: Installer regression on ppc64el under PowerKVM Aditi Mishra <aditi@linux.ibm.com> - 2024-11-08 08:50 +0100
    Bug#1085949: Installer regression on ppc64el under PowerKVM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2024-11-08 09:00 +0100
  Bug#1085949: Installer regression on ppc64el under PowerKVM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2025-01-07 10:00 +0100
  Bug#1085949: Installer regression on ppc64el under PowerKVM Aditi Mishra <aditi@linux.ibm.com> - 2025-01-07 10:30 +0100
    Bug#1085949: Installer regression on ppc64el under PowerKVM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2025-01-16 00:30 +0100
  Bug#1085949: Installer regression on ppc64el under PowerKVM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2025-03-26 08:10 +0100
  Bug#1085949: marked as done (Installer regression on ppc64el  under PowerKVM) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2025-03-29 14:20 +0100
  Bug#1085949: marked as done (Installer regression on ppc64el  under PowerKVM) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2025-03-30 20:10 +0200

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