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

[Frédéric Bonnard]

Hi Dimitri,
I did the test with the netboot vmlinux/initrd.gz from xenial-proposed and 'apt-setup/proposed=true'
and it worked :

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ubuntu at garri:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Release:	16.04
Codename:	xenial
ubuntu at garri:~$ apt-cache policy opal-prd
opal-prd:
  Installed: 5.4.3-1ubuntu0.16.04.1
  Candidate: 5.4.3-1ubuntu0.16.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 5.4.3-1ubuntu0.16.04.1 500
        500 http://de.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-updates/main ppc64el Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     5.1.13-0ubuntu2 500
        500 http://de.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial/universe ppc64el Packages
ubuntu at garri:~$ ps axf|grep opal-prd
  1837 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/opal-prd --pnor /dev/mtd0
  2067 hvc0     S+     0:00      \_ grep --color=auto opal-prd
ubuntu at garri:~$ ls -ld /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/ibm,opal/diagnostics
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Feb 23 14:55 /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/ibm,opal/diagnostics
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Thanks,

F.

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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:
  Fix Committed

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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