New NETINST iso stuff not quite right for SPARC-S7
neptune# curl -L --url
'https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2025-11-11/debian-13.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso'
-O
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left
Speed
100 367 100 367 0 0 803 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
803
100 321M 100 321M 0 0 1670k 0 0:03:17 0:03:17 --:--:--
1729k
neptune#
What I did and saw on the ORACLE S7-2 with an LDOM is a slightly wonky
install menu process. However that may simply be because the console
to the LDOM is via telnet and that *always* is wonky weird for a LDOM.
I could not select some things on the install menu and hitting TAB would
just act like a return key at times. Other times it would be acting like
a TAB char. No idea what that is caused by and I blame the weird telnet
session for the LDOM console.
So there was no way to use the snazzy remote install process over SSH
and that left me with the wonky console behavior. So wonky that my arrow
keys were sometimes interpreted as a return char. Took me a few attempts
to get the install done.
Eventually I was able to finish the install and reboot :
Loading Linux 6.17.7+deb14+1-sparc64-smp ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...
[ 0.585809] ds-0: ds_conn_reset() from ldc_rx
/dev/vdiskb3: clean, 29371/3039232 files, 749002/12142080 blocks
Debian GNU/Linux forky/sid neso ttyHV0
neso login: root
Password:
Linux neso 6.17.7+deb14+1-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 6.17.7-2
(2025-11-06) sparc64
The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
root@neso:~#
root@neso:~# uname -a
Linux neso 6.17.7+deb14+1-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 6.17.7-2
(2025-11-06) sparc64 GNU/Linux
root@neso:~#
root@neso:~# lscpu
Architecture: sparc64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Big Endian
CPU(s): 16
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-15
Model name: SPARC-M7
Thread(s) per core: 8
Core(s) per socket: 2
Socket(s): 1
Flags: sun4v
Caches (sum of all):
L1d: 256 KiB (16 instances)
L1i: 256 KiB (16 instances)
L2: 4 MiB (16 instances)
NUMA:
NUMA node(s): 1
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-15
root@neso:~#
root@neso:~# head -4 /proc/cpuinfo
cpu : SPARC-M7
fpu : SPARC-M7 integrated FPU
pmu : sparc-m7
prom : OBP 4.43.14 2025/02/17 03:22
root@neso:~#
* * * That looks wrong * * *
Yup. That is wrong. Should say "SPARC-S7" thus :
p# uname -a
Linux proteus 6.17.7-genunix #1 SMP Wed Nov 5 00:02:44 GMT 2025 sparc64
sun4v SPARC-S7 (Sonoma) GNU/Linux
p# lscpu
Architecture: sparc64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Big Endian
CPU(s): 96
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-95
Model name: SPARC-S7 (Sonoma)
Thread(s) per core: 8
Core(s) per socket: 6
Socket(s): 2
Flags: sun4v
Caches (sum of all):
L1d: 1.5 MiB (96 instances)
L1i: 1.5 MiB (96 instances)
L2: 24 MiB (96 instances)
NUMA:
NUMA node(s): 2
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-31
NUMA node1 CPU(s): 32-95
p#
p# head -4 /proc/cpuinfo
cpu : SPARC-S7 (Sonoma)
fpu : SPARC-S7 integrated FPU
pmu : sparc-s7
prom : OBP 4.43.14 2025/02/17 03:22
p#
So some important patches are absent.
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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
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