console-setup.service fails on ppc64el

In ScalingStack ppc64el instances, console-setup.service fails:

$ sudo systemctl status -l console-setup.service
● console-setup.service - Set console keymap
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/console-setup.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2015-11-16 11:38:44 UTC; 47s ago
     Docs: man:loadkeys(1)
  Process: 245 ExecStart=/usr/bin/loadkeys /etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 245 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Nov 16 11:38:44 ubuntuubuntu-xenial-adt-ppc64el-server-20151114 systemd[1]: Starting Set console keymap...
Nov 16 11:38:44 ubuntuubuntu-xenial-adt-ppc64el-server-20151114 loadkeys[245]: Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console
Nov 16 11:38:44 ubuntuubuntu-xenial-adt-ppc64el-server-20151114 systemd[1]: console-setup.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 16 11:38:44 ubuntuubuntu-xenial-adt-ppc64el-server-20151114 systemd[1]: Failed to start Set console keymap.
Nov 16 11:38:44 ubuntuubuntu-xenial-adt-ppc64el-server-20151114 systemd[1]: console-setup.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov 16 11:38:44 ubuntuubuntu-xenial-adt-ppc64el-server-20151114 systemd[1]: console-setup.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

strace shows

open("/dev/console", O_RDWR) = 3
ioctl(3, TCGETS, {c_iflags=0, c_oflags=0x3, c_cflags=0x4b0f, c_lflags=0, c_line=0, c_cc[VMIN]=1, c_cc[VTIME]=0, c_cc="\x03\x1c\x7f\x15\x04\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x17\x12\x1a\x11\x13\x16\x15\x00\x00"}) = 0
ioctl(3, KDGKBTYPE, 0x3ffff3111300) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
close(3) = 0

while on amd64 this succeeds:

open("/dev/console", O_RDWR) = 3
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_NEXT_DEVICE or TCGETS, {c_iflags=0x5, c_oflags=0, c_cflags=0xbf, c_lflags=0, c_line=0, c_cc[VMIN]=1, c_cc[VTIME]=0, c_cc="\x03\x1c\x7f\x15\x04\x00\x01\x00\x11\x13\x1a\x00\x12\x0f\x17\x16\x00\x00\x00"}) = 0
ioctl(3, KDGKBTYPE, 0x7ffe41f71877) = 0
ioctl(3, KDGKBMODE, 0x7ffe41f71898) = 0
close(3) = 0