Re: Debian "wheezy" install on Netra X1 done
On 9/4/25 01:59, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello Dennis,
On Wed, 2025-09-03 at 22:17 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 9/3/25 17:13, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Dennis,
You don't need to apply any patches, just install the test kernel:
https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sparc64/linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb
That didn't work so well :
...
Modern Debian-packages are compressed with XZ which is not supported by
old versions of dpkg. You can decompress this package on an amd64 machine
running a more recent version of Debian with:
$ dpkg-deb -x linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb /target/path
I made a tarball of the extracted stuff and managed to scp that over to
the sparcv9 machine which is a sun4u architecture. Not sun4v which is
a bizarre sick experiment sold briefly as Niagara class trash. It sort
of works. Sort of. All Fujitsu stuff is called SPARC64.
Something here is missing.
nix# cd new_linux/
nix# ls -la
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 16411 20002 4096 Aug 28 08:07 .
drwx------ 6 root root 4096 Sep 4 20:48 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 16411 20002 4096 Aug 28 08:07 boot
drwxr-xr-x 4 16411 20002 4096 Aug 28 08:07 usr
nix# cd boot
nix# ls -la
total 22064
drwxr-xr-x 2 16411 20002 4096 Aug 28 08:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 16411 20002 4096 Aug 28 08:07 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 16411 20002 201244 Aug 28 08:07 config-6.12.3-sparc64-smp
-rw-r--r-- 1 16411 20002 83 Aug 28 08:07 System.map-6.12.3-sparc64-smp
-rw-r--r-- 1 16411 20002 22375120 Aug 28 08:07 vmlinux-6.12.3-sparc64-smp
nix#
nix# cp -p * /boot
nix# cd /boot
nix# ls -la
total 36139
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Sep 4 20:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Sep 3 21:25 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Sep 3 14:47 boot -> .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88825 Mar 9 2016 config-3.2.0-4-sparc64
-rw-r--r-- 1 16411 20002 201244 Aug 28 08:07 config-6.12.3-sparc64-smp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Sep 3 14:47 etc -> .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 Aug 19 2012 fd.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Aug 19 2012 first.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 Aug 19 2012 generic.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 692 Aug 19 2012 ieee32.b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Sep 3 14:30 initrd.img ->
initrd.img-3.2.0-4-sparc64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10112340 Sep 3 14:47 initrd.img-3.2.0-4-sparc64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7040 Aug 19 2012 isofs.b
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Sep 3 14:06 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7680 Sep 3 14:47 old.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53248 Sep 3 14:47 second.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 172 Sep 3 14:47 silo.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50994 Aug 19 2012 silotftp.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1583478 Mar 9 2016 System.map-3.2.0-4-sparc64
-rw-r--r-- 1 16411 20002 83 Aug 28 08:07
System.map-6.12.3-sparc64-smp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Aug 19 2012 ultra.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 16411 20002 22375120 Aug 28 08:07 vmlinux-6.12.3-sparc64-smp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Sep 3 14:30 vmlinuz ->
vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-sparc64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2346441 Mar 9 2016 vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-sparc64
nix#
There is no initrd for this new kernel ?
nix# chown root:root config-6.12.3-sparc64-smp
nix# chown root:root initrd.img-3.2.0-4-sparc64
nix# chown root:root System.map-6.12.3-sparc64-smp
nix# chown root:root vmlinux-6.12.3-sparc64-smp
nix# unlink initrd.img
nix#
I do not see how this will work.
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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
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