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.