Installer doesn't include ast GPU driver for OpenPower machines

[Jeremy Kerr]

When booting the Ubuntu 14.03.4 installer on an OpenPower machine with a VGA monitor attached, we see no output - the only installer output is over the physical UART (or SOL session).

Petitboot is displayed over both VGA and UART, but not the installer UI.

It seems like the ast GPU driver isn't present on the installer image (but is present for the non-installer kernels), which is required for graphics output on these machines.

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[Jeremy Kerr (jk-ozlabs)]

Assigning to linux package, as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

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[Jeremy Kerr (jk-ozlabs)]

Any news on this one? It's preventing folks from installing on OpenPOWER machines if they're relying on VGA.

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Will this do the trick ?

[Jeremy Kerr (jk-ozlabs)]

hi Tim,

Yep, that looks like it'll sort it. Is there any reference around for building an installer image with this?

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Jeremy - use livecd-rootfs ? I'd ask on #ubuntu-devel.

[Luis Henriques (henrix)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-vivid' to 'verification-done-vivid'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

[Luis Henriques (henrix)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-wily' to 'verification-done-wily'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

[Jeremy Kerr (jk-ozlabs)]

@henrix: I'll need some help with testing this; it's not like we can just boot into the new kernel directlyb. We'll chase this up with #ubuntu-devel.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.4.0-2.16

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linux (4.4.0-2.16) xenial; urgency=low

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1539090
  * SAUCE: hv: hv_set_ifconfig -- convert to python3
    - LP: #1506521
  * SAUCE: dm: introduce a target_ioctl op to allow target specific ioctls
    - LP: #1538618

  [ Colin Ian King ]

  * SAUCE: ACPI / tables: Add acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr option to force 32
    bit FADT addresses (LP: #1529381)
    - LP: #1529381

  [ John Johansen ]

  * SAUCE: (no-up): apparmor: fix for failed mediation of socket that is
    being shutdown
    - LP: #1446906

  [ Mahesh Salgaonkar ]

  * SAUCE: Powernv: Remove the usage of PACAR1 from opal wrappers
    - LP: #1537881
  * SAUCE: powerpc/book3s: Fix TB corruption in guest exit path on HMI
    interrupt.
    - LP: #1537881
  * SAUCE: KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix soft lockups in KVM on HMI for time
    base errors
    - LP: #1537881

  [ Paolo Pisati ]

  * SAUCE: arm64: errata: Add -mpc-relative-literal-loads to erratum
    #843419 build flags
    - LP: #1533009
  * [Config] MFD_TPS65217=y && REGULATOR_TPS65217=y
  * [Config] disable ARCH_ZX (ZTE ZX Soc)

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * Revert "SAUCE: (noup) cxlflash: a couple off by one bugs"
  * SAUCE: (no-up) Update bnx2x firmware to 7.12.30.0
    - LP: #1536719
  * SAUCE: drop obsolete bnx2x firmware
  * SAUCE: i40e: Silence 'may be used uninitialized' warnings
    - LP: #1536474
  * [Config] CONFIG_ZONE_DMA=y for amd64 lowlatency
    - LP: #1534647
  * [Config] Add pvpanic to virtual flavour
    - LP: #1537923
  * [Config] CONFIG_INTEL_PUNIT_IPC=m, CONFIG_INTEL_TELEMETRY=m
    - LP: #1520457

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * i40evf: fix compiler warning of unused variable
    - LP: #1536474
  * intel: i40e: fix confused code
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40e/i40evf: remove unused tunnel parameter
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40e: Change BUG_ON to WARN_ON in service event complete
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40e: remove BUG_ON from feature string building
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40e: remove BUG_ON from FCoE setup
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40e: Workaround fix for mss < 256 issue
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40e/i40evf: Add a stat to track how many times we have to do a force
    WB
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40e: Move the saving of old link info from handle_link_event to
    link_event
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40e/i40evf: Add comment to #endif
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40e/i40evf: clean up error messages
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40evf: handle many MAC filters correctly
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40e: return the number of enabled queues for ETHTOOL_GRXRINGS
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40e: rework the functions to configure RSS with similar parameters
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40e: create a generic configure rss function
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40e: Bump version to 1.4.2
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40e: add new fields to store user configuration
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40e: rename rss_size to alloc_rss_size in i40e_pf
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40e/i40evf: Fix RS bit update in Tx path and disable force WB
    workaround
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40e/i40evf: prefetch skb data on transmit
    - LP: #1536474
  * i40evf: rename VF adapter s...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.19.0-49.55

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linux (3.19.0-49.55) vivid; urgency=low

  [ Brad Figg ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1536775

  [ Colin Ian King ]

  * SAUCE: (no-up) ACPI / tables: Add acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr option to
    force 32 bit FADT addresses
    - LP: #1529381

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * [Config] Add DRM ast driver to udeb installer image
    - LP: #1514711
  * SAUCE: (no-up) Revert "[SCSI] libiscsi: Reduce locking contention in
    fast path"
    - LP: #1517142

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * powerpc/eeh: Fix recursive fenced PHB on Broadcom shiner adapter
    - LP: #1532942
  * Drivers: hv: vmbus: prevent cpu offlining on newer hypervisors
    - LP: #1440103
  * Drivers: hv: vmbus: teardown hv_vmbus_con workqueue and
    vmbus_connection pages on shutdown
    - LP: #1440103
  * drivers: hv: vmbus: Teardown synthetic interrupt controllers on module
    unload
    - LP: #1440103
  * clockevents: export clockevents_unbind_device instead of
    clockevents_unbind
    - LP: #1440103
  * Drivers: hv: vmbus: Teardown clockevent devices on module unload
    - LP: #1440103
  * Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add support for VMBus panic notifier handler
    - LP: #1440103
  * hv: run non-blocking message handlers in the dispatch tasklet
    - LP: #1440103
  * Drivers: hv: vmbus: unregister panic notifier on module unload
    - LP: #1440103
  * Drivers: hv: vmbus: Implement the protocol for tearing down vmbus state
    - LP: #1440103
  * kexec: define kexec_in_progress in !CONFIG_KEXEC case
    - LP: #1440103
  * Drivers: hv: vmbus: add special kexec handler
    - LP: #1440103
  * Drivers: hv: don't do hypercalls when hypercall_page is NULL
    - LP: #1440103
  * Drivers: hv: vmbus: add special crash handler
    - LP: #1440103
  * Drivers: hv: vmbus: prefer 'die' notification chain to 'panic'
    - LP: #1440103
  * hyperv: Implement netvsc_get_channels() ethool op
    - LP: #1494423
  * hv_netvsc: Properly size the vrss queues
    - LP: #1494423
  * hv_netvsc: Allocate the sendbuf in a NUMA aware way
    - LP: #1494423
  * hv_netvsc: Allocate the receive buffer from the correct NUMA node
    - LP: #1494423
  * Drivers: hv: vmbus: Implement NUMA aware CPU affinity for channels
    - LP: #1494423
  * Drivers: hv: vmbus: Allocate ring buffer memory in NUMA aware fashion
    - LP: #1494423
  * Drivers: hv: vmbus: Improve the CPU affiliation for channels
    - LP: #1494423
  * Drivers: hv: vmbus: Further improve CPU affiliation logic
    - LP: #1494423

linux (3.19.0-48.54) vivid; urgency=low

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1536124
  * Merged back Ubuntu-3.19.0-46.52

 -- Brad Figg <email address hidden> Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:29:48 -0800

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.2.0-27.32

---------------
linux (4.2.0-27.32) wily; urgency=low

  [ Brad Figg ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1536867

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * SAUCE: (no-up) add compat_uts_machine= kernel command line override
    - LP: #1520627

  [ Colin Ian King ]

  * SAUCE: (no-up) ACPI / tables: Add acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr option to
    force 32 bit FADT addresses
    - LP: #1529381

  [ Eric Dumazet ]

  * SAUCE: (no-up) udp: properly support MSG_PEEK with truncated buffers
    - LP: #1527902

  [ Guilherme G. Piccoli ]

  * SAUCE: powerpc/eeh: Validate arch in eeh_add_device_early()
    - LP: #1486180

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * SAUCE: (no-up) Revert "[SCSI] libiscsi: Reduce locking contention in
    fast path"
    - LP: #1517142
  * [Config] Add DRM ast driver to udeb installer image
    - LP: #1514711

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * net/mlx5e: Re-eanble client vlan TX acceleration
    - LP: #1533249
  * net/mlx5e: Fix LSO vlan insertion
    - LP: #1533249
  * net/mlx5e: Fix inline header size calculation
    - LP: #1533249
  * net: usb: cdc_ncm: Adding Dell DW5812 LTE Verizon Mobile Broadband Card
    - LP: #1533118
  * net: usb: cdc_ncm: Adding Dell DW5813 LTE AT&T Mobile Broadband Card
    - LP: #1533118
  * powerpc/eeh: Fix recursive fenced PHB on Broadcom shiner adapter
    - LP: #1532942

linux (4.2.0-26.31) wily; urgency=low

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1535795
  * Merged back Ubuntu-4.2.0-25.30

 -- Brad Figg <email address hidden> Thu, 21 Jan 2016 18:44:37 -0800