Hello! We recently ran into a regression in the debian-installer on sparc64 which made the serial console unusable during installation. It turned out that the regression was introduced by a change in the rootskel package [1] and the problem is that "steal-tty" is not able to find the active serial console and pick it up for the installer. After looking at the code changes, we found out that the problem is that in the sparc64 kernel, the device names for the serial console in /proc/consoles does not match the one under /sys: root@landau:~# cat /proc/consoles ttyHV0 -W- (EC p ) 4:64 tty0 -WU (E ) 4:1 root@landau:~# root@landau:~# readlink /sys/dev/char/4:64 ../../devices/root/f0299a70/f029b788/tty/ttyS0 root@landau:~# Thus, any software reading /proc/consoles will not be able to figure out what the name of the serial device is. Is there any particular reason this device name mismatch exists or is it just a bug we can fix? Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=926539 > [2] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/rootskel/commit/b6048aafed7d73ba42da04d6f7a798710f271384#11da32c570b25101c7d830e4fd6c254c323cddc8_21_16 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxx `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
