[Bug 1555904] Re: opal-prd not installed by default on ppc64el systems

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

** Changed in: hw-detect (Ubuntu Xenial)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-16.04.4

** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu Xenial)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-16.04.4

** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided => Critical

** Changed in: hw-detect (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided => Critical

** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: hw-detect (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Description changed:

+ [Impact]
+ 
+  * opal-prd should be installed on OpenPOWER systems
+ 
+ [Test Case]
+ 
+  * install power system
+ 
+  * check that /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/ibm,opal/diagnostics exists
+ 
+  * if above is true, check that opal-prd package is installed
+ 
+ [Regression Potential]
+ 
+  * Additional package installation is performed, thus the install
+ process may take longer, and additional disk space will be used. However
+ the new code path is non-fatal, and all errors are ignored, thus all
+ installation should still proceed past this point. For systems without
+ relevant diagnostics exposed, this code path is a no-op.
+ 
+ [Other Info]
+  
+  * Original bug report
+ 
  Just tried an install with current 16.04 network media, using standard
  server package selections, and it looks like opal-prd isn't installed by
  default:
  
-  [jk at fstn ~]$ dpkg -l opal-prd
-  dpkg-query: no packages found matching opal-prd
+  [jk at fstn ~]$ dpkg -l opal-prd
+  dpkg-query: no packages found matching opal-prd
  
  This is required for RAS-type functions on OpenPOWER machines; and has a
  similar role to something like acpid, on x86.
  
  I'm not sure whether filing this against the skiboot package is best, or
  whether this should be moved to something installer-related. Happy to
  shift if necessary.

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Title:
  opal-prd not installed by default on ppc64el systems

Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project:
  Fix Released
Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in hw-detect package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in debian-installer source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in hw-detect source package in Xenial:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * opal-prd should be installed on OpenPOWER systems

  [Test Case]

   * install power system

   * check that /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/ibm,opal/diagnostics
  exists

   * if above is true, check that opal-prd package is installed

  [Regression Potential]

   * Additional package installation is performed, thus the install
  process may take longer, and additional disk space will be used.
  However the new code path is non-fatal, and all errors are ignored,
  thus all installation should still proceed past this point. For
  systems without relevant diagnostics exposed, this code path is a no-
  op.

  [Other Info]
   
   * Original bug report

  Just tried an install with current 16.04 network media, using standard
  server package selections, and it looks like opal-prd isn't installed
  by default:

   [jk at fstn ~]$ dpkg -l opal-prd
   dpkg-query: no packages found matching opal-prd

  This is required for RAS-type functions on OpenPOWER machines; and has
  a similar role to something like acpid, on x86.

  I'm not sure whether filing this against the skiboot package is best,
  or whether this should be moved to something installer-related. Happy
  to shift if necessary.

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