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

[Robie Basak]

Hello Jeremy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted hw-detect into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hw-
detect/1.117ubuntu2.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed
repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from
verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, details of your
testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

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

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-xenial

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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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