Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

[Csanyi Pal <csanyipal@gmail.com>]

Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:

> On 2013-05-22 21:56 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>
>> I have the Bubba Two hardware [1], and I'm running on it the Debian
>> Squeeze operating system so far.
>> I have installed Squeeze by following these steps described here:
>> http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2518
>>
>> Now since Wheezy is out as stable release, I want to upgrade my Squeeze
>> system to Wheezy.
>>
>> Is it possible to do this by following advices from here:
>> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
>
> This is not the right document for your hardware, you want to
> s/i386/powerpc/ in the above URL.

Yes, indeed. I should use instead:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html

>>>From where can I install the kernel for the Wheezy system for this
>> hardware? 
>>
>> Is there some dependencies regarding kernel and wheezy GNU system? 
>> In other words, must I have on this hardware ( Bubba Two is a headless
>> server box ) a particular linux image that can work together with the
>> rest of the GNU system ( Wheezy )?
>
> Yes, udev in Wheezy requires a kernel >= 2.6.32 with the accept4(2)
> syscall.  At least one year ago, the Squeeze kernel did not provide this
> particular syscall on powerpc (it does on x86 though), and on my (purely
> virtual) machine udev entered an infinite loop in the initramfs.
>
> So before you upgrade your userland, I'd strongly recommend that you get
> hold of a newer kernel first, e.g. from squeeze-backports.  How to boot
> it - I don't know.

Well, I just run 'uname -a' command on that operating system and get:
Linux b2 2.6.39.4-4 #1 Fri Aug 19 14:41:59 CEST 2011 ppc GNU/Linux

so, I actually run the proper kernel, right?

So I think that that I can go with distribution upgrade, right?

-- 
Regards from Pal