Bug#857047: live-build: Submission of patch to enable the building of an HDD live image for ppc64el

[Deb McLemore <debmc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Package: live-build
Version: 1:20170213
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

This patch enables the building of an HDD live image with persistence.

See the patch summary for more details on this patch enablement.

The patch is large, but due to the functionality and dependencies in the
function and capabilities provided, splitting this patch to smaller
patches was not possible.

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers xenial-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'xenial-updates'), (500, 'xenial-security'), (500, 'xenial'), (100, 'xenial-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-65-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)