Comment 3 for bug 1900241

Tested with latest upstream and found the issue is fixed,

# git log -1
commit dd3d2340c4076d1735cd0f7cb61f4d8622b9562d (HEAD -> master, tag: v5.2.0-rc3, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: Peter Maydell <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Nov 24 22:13:30 2020 +0000

    Update version for v5.2.0-rc3 release

    Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <email address hidden>

/home/sath/qemu/build/qemu-system-ppc64 -name vm1 -M pseries,vsmt=2 -accel kvm -m 4096 -smp 8,cores=8,threads=1 -nographic -nodefaults -serial mon:stdio -vga none -nographic -device virtio-scsi-pci -drive file=/home/sath/tests/data/avocado-vt/images/fdevel-ppc64le.qcow2,if=none,id=hd0,format=qcow2,cache=none -device scsi-hd,drive=hd0

Fedora 33 (Thirty Three Prerelease)
Kernel 5.8.13-300.fc33.ppc64le on an ppc64le (hvc0)

atest-guest login: root
Password:
Login incorrect

atest-guest login: root
Password:
Last login: Wed Nov 18 09:03:24 on hvc0
[root@atest-guest ~]# lscpu
Architecture: ppc64le
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 8
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 8
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1

Regards,
-Satheesh