Re: Crossgrading sparc to sparc64

[Gatis Visnevskis <gasha@pie-dabas.net>]

Hi,

I have SparcStation 10, which seems to be compatible. Running wheezy at 
this time. Crossgrading is what i was looking for. Reinstall also can be 
performed, as plan B.

As a plan C, i have prepared LDOM for testing.

Gasha

On 2016.12.15. 21:58, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> While reading the debian-devel archives for this week, I just found something
> that might also be useful for anyone running Debian sparc and who wants to
> upgrade to Debian sparc64 without having to reinstall.
>
> It seems that it's actually feasible to upgrade from an older to a newer Debian
> architecture if the CPU is compatible with both architectures. It's called
> crossgrading [1].
>
> Would be interesting to hear of the results for performing a crossgrade from
> sparc to sparc64. So, if anyone wants to do that, please report back to the
> list.
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
> > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/12/msg00366.html