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 Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
