Re: Fwd: Debian on Linux-SH4

Hi Robert!

On 1/11/22 12:41, Robert Święcki wrote:
> Thanks, I guess I did it the hard way then (through the debian-installer) :)
> 
> BTW: some problems I noticed during installation:
> 
> - debian-installer for sh4 (probably one of the most recent ones) has
> tools compiled with glibc-2.33 but the version of glibc inside (initrd
> image) is glibc-2.32, so some tools like mount and part*something
> refuse to run with sth like "missing symbol GLIBC_2.33"

I will build updated debian-installer images within the next days which should
fix the problem.

> - debian-installer comes with kernel version 5.13 or so, and the
> pool-sh4 has only 5.15.*-di kernels - I used custom kernel with custom
> kernel version (so it matches the -di kernel version)

That will be fixed by an updated image build as well.

> - older debian-installers for sh4 won't run on r2d with 64MB RAM due
> to OOOms. I added some ninja swap images to bypass that. I think newer
> installers have low-RAM mode, and it works better.

I never managed to get debian-installer to boot on qemu-sh4-system, did you?

If yes, I would be very interested to learn how you managed to get the kernel
to boot in qemu-sh4.

> PS: Many years ago I was solving a CTF (Capture The Flag) challenge -
> https://blog.dragonsector.pl/2014/12/seccon-2014-japanese-super-micro.html
> - which was using SH4 for Linux compiled in big-endian mode. I guess
> someone went through troubles to compile Linux kernel in big-endian,
> and then compiled some userland to big-endian too. Dunno.

Fun. I will have a read tonight.

Adrian

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