On Thu, 2025-09-04 at 07:59 +0200, 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 : > > > > nix# curl --cacert $HOME/ssl/certs/cacert.pem -L --url > > 'https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sparc64/linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb' > > > > -O > > % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time > > Current > > Dload Upload Total Spent Left > > Speed > > 100 40.1M 100 40.1M 0 0 1791k 0 0:00:22 0:00:22 --:--:-- > > 1858k > > nix# > > > > nix# dpkg -i linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb > > dpkg-deb: error: archive > > 'linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb' contains > > not understood data member control.tar.xz, giving up > > dpkg: error processing > > linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb (--install): > > subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb > > nix# file linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb > > linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb: Debian > > binary package (format 2.0) > > nix# > > 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 > > Then copy the kernel over manually and run "update-initramfs -k > 6.12.3-sparc64-smp -c -v
Copy vmlinux, System.map and config into /boot and the modules into /lib/modules. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
