Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports (2025-03-16)
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 fbdev module is
> expecting "of-display.0" from modern OF compatible firmware but
> Apple OF is providing "of-display". Am I on track or off?
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 it also seemed that he wasn't really interested
in fixing this problem.
I assume that we will just have to wait until Trixie has been released
and people start reporting this issue when they are switching to Trixie.
I have no clue why I'm not being able to convince anyone to fix this problem
even though it's clearly a bug.
For what is worth, the patch that Debian's kernel package is currently
carrying was even rejected upstream because of the very problem it had
with hard-wiring the name in such an incompatible way.
Adrian
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