Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware
On 2013-05-25 19:19 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> On 2013-05-22 21:56 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
I think that's sufficient - accept4() for powerpc was added in 2.6.37,
if I understand it correctly¹.
> So I think that that I can go with distribution upgrade, right?
Probably - if it breaks, I'll deny any responsibility, though. ;-)
Cheers,
Sven
¹ https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=86250b9d12caa1a3dee12a7cf638b7dd70eaadb6
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