[gentoo-user] Does https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999 say Linux kernel on SPARCv9 is not possible?

[gentoo-user] Does https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999 say Linux kernel on SPARCv9 is not possible?

[Dennis Clarke]

re : https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999

     It makes no sense to try this procedure on faster and bigger server
  equipment if the Linux kernel is not possible. I know there is a whole
  lot of discussion happening in the Debian maillist and also that there
  exists a distro called T2sde which proclaims a possible kernel.

     Is there some strange collection of magic patches that those people
  have and not published?


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RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken

PS: I have an ORACLE S7-2 server to test

Re: [gentoo-user] Does https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999 say Linux kernel on SPARCv9 is not possible?

[Javier Martinez]

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El 18/9/25 a las 4:15, Dennis Clarke escribió:
> 
> re : https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999
> 
>      It makes no sense to try this procedure on faster and bigger server
>   equipment if the Linux kernel is not possible. I know there is a whole
>   lot of discussion happening in the Debian maillist and also that there
>   exists a distro called T2sde which proclaims a possible kernel.
> 
>      Is there some strange collection of magic patches that those people
>   have and not published?
> 
> 

I don't see any relation between the bug and a trouble with one netspace 
linking trouble.

IMHO Sparcv9 is sparc64. Try to compile the kernel disabling fully 
namespaces support in kernel config.

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[Javier Martinez]

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El 18/9/25 a las 4:22, Javier Martinez escribió:
> El 18/9/25 a las 4:15, Dennis Clarke escribió:
>>
>> re : https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999
>>
>>      It makes no sense to try this procedure on faster and bigger server
>>   equipment if the Linux kernel is not possible. I know there is a whole
>>   lot of discussion happening in the Debian maillist and also that there
>>   exists a distro called T2sde which proclaims a possible kernel.
>>
>>      Is there some strange collection of magic patches that those people
>>   have and not published?
>>
>>
> 
> I don't see any relation between the bug and a trouble with one netspace 
> linking trouble.
> 
> IMHO Sparcv9 is sparc64. Try to compile the kernel disabling fully 
> namespaces support in kernel config.

I want mean, your bug only says trouble linking because of namespace 
related function, not that kernel don't support your arch. Maybe some 
syscalls could be not supported in your arch but nothing else. Instead 
using genkernel compile your kernel by hand.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Does https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999 say Linux kernel on SPARCv9 is not possible?

[Dennis Clarke]

On 9/17/25 22:22, Javier Martinez wrote:
> El 18/9/25 a las 4:15, Dennis Clarke escribió:
>>
>> re : https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999
>>
>>      It makes no sense to try this procedure on faster and bigger server
>>   equipment if the Linux kernel is not possible. I know there is a whole
>>   lot of discussion happening in the Debian maillist and also that there
>>   exists a distro called T2sde which proclaims a possible kernel.
>>
>>      Is there some strange collection of magic patches that those people
>>   have and not published?
>>
>>
> 
> I don't see any relation between the bug and a trouble with one netspace 
> linking trouble.
> 
> IMHO Sparcv9 is sparc64. Try to compile the kernel disabling fully 
> namespaces support in kernel config.


SPARC64 is the Fujitsu product. Everything else is SPARC of the flavour
V9 or some variant so long as it is 64-bit. The 32-bit stuff is now
ancient and we just called them v7 or v8 or v8a etc etc etc.

Regardless there has been no update on that bug report and the config is
entirely from the Gentoo sources in this matter. Otherwise I would need
to get the upstream Linux sources and do this all manually and maybe
select a very limited set of modules etc etc.

All of this is a waste of time on older hardware.

I will try again with the ORACLE S7-2 when I can.


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RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken

Re: [gentoo-user] Does https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999 say Linux kernel on SPARCv9 is not possible?

[Javier Martinez]

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El 18/9/25 a las 4:48, Dennis Clarke escribió:
> On 9/17/25 22:22, Javier Martinez wrote:
>> El 18/9/25 a las 4:15, Dennis Clarke escribió:
>>>
>>> re : https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999
>>>
>>>      It makes no sense to try this procedure on faster and bigger server
>>>   equipment if the Linux kernel is not possible. I know there is a whole
>>>   lot of discussion happening in the Debian maillist and also that there
>>>   exists a distro called T2sde which proclaims a possible kernel.
>>>
>>>      Is there some strange collection of magic patches that those people
>>>   have and not published?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I don't see any relation between the bug and a trouble with one 
>> netspace linking trouble.
>>
>> IMHO Sparcv9 is sparc64. Try to compile the kernel disabling fully 
>> namespaces support in kernel config.
> 
> 
> SPARC64 is the Fujitsu product. Everything else is SPARC of the flavour
> V9 or some variant so long as it is 64-bit. The 32-bit stuff is now
> ancient and we just called them v7 or v8 or v8a etc etc etc.
> 
> Regardless there has been no update on that bug report and the config is
> entirely from the Gentoo sources in this matter. Otherwise I would need
> to get the upstream Linux sources and do this all manually and maybe
> select a very limited set of modules etc etc.
> 
> All of this is a waste of time on older hardware.
> 
> I will try again with the ORACLE S7-2 when I can.
> 
> 
In kernel sources there are support to sparc32 and sparc64 
architectures. Your bug is not related with lack of arch support. Is 
related with a trouble linking because probably a misconfiguration. As I 
have said you, make menuconfig, disable namespaces, save .config and 
make. That's all what you need.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Does https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999 say Linux kernel on SPARCv9 is not possible?

[Michael]

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On Thursday, 18 September 2025 03:51:39 British Summer Time Javier Martinez 
wrote:
> El 18/9/25 a las 4:48, Dennis Clarke escribió:
> 
> > On 9/17/25 22:22, Javier Martinez wrote:
> > 
> >> El 18/9/25 a las 4:15, Dennis Clarke escribió:
> >> 
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> re : https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>      It makes no sense to try this procedure on faster and bigger
> >>> server
> >>>   equipment if the Linux kernel is not possible. I know there is a
> >>> whole
> >>>   lot of discussion happening in the Debian maillist and also that
> >>> there
> >>>   exists a distro called T2sde which proclaims a possible kernel.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>      Is there some strange collection of magic patches that those
> >>> people
> >>>   have and not published?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I don't see any relation between the bug and a trouble with one 
> >> netspace linking trouble.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> IMHO Sparcv9 is sparc64. Try to compile the kernel disabling fully 
> >> namespaces support in kernel config.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > SPARC64 is the Fujitsu product. Everything else is SPARC of the flavour
> > V9 or some variant so long as it is 64-bit. The 32-bit stuff is now
> > ancient and we just called them v7 or v8 or v8a etc etc etc.
> > 
> > Regardless there has been no update on that bug report and the config is
> > entirely from the Gentoo sources in this matter. Otherwise I would need
> > to get the upstream Linux sources and do this all manually and maybe
> > select a very limited set of modules etc etc.
> > 
> > All of this is a waste of time on older hardware.
> > 
> > I will try again with the ORACLE S7-2 when I can.
> > 
> > 
> 
> In kernel sources there are support to sparc32 and sparc64 
> architectures. Your bug is not related with lack of arch support. Is 
> related with a trouble linking because probably a misconfiguration. As I 
> have said you, make menuconfig, disable namespaces, save .config and 
> make. That's all what you need.

Or enable CONFIG_NET to satisfy CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y?

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[Javier Martinez]

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El 18/9/25 a las 11:08, Michael escribió:
> On Thursday, 18 September 2025 03:51:39 British Summer Time Javier Martinez
> wrote:
>> El 18/9/25 a las 4:48, Dennis Clarke escribió:
>>
>>> On 9/17/25 22:22, Javier Martinez wrote:
>>>
>>>> El 18/9/25 a las 4:15, Dennis Clarke escribió:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> re : https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>       It makes no sense to try this procedure on faster and bigger
>>>>> server
>>>>>    equipment if the Linux kernel is not possible. I know there is a
>>>>> whole
>>>>>    lot of discussion happening in the Debian maillist and also that
>>>>> there
>>>>>    exists a distro called T2sde which proclaims a possible kernel.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>       Is there some strange collection of magic patches that those
>>>>> people
>>>>>    have and not published?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't see any relation between the bug and a trouble with one
>>>> netspace linking trouble.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> IMHO Sparcv9 is sparc64. Try to compile the kernel disabling fully
>>>> namespaces support in kernel config.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> SPARC64 is the Fujitsu product. Everything else is SPARC of the flavour
>>> V9 or some variant so long as it is 64-bit. The 32-bit stuff is now
>>> ancient and we just called them v7 or v8 or v8a etc etc etc.
>>>
>>> Regardless there has been no update on that bug report and the config is
>>> entirely from the Gentoo sources in this matter. Otherwise I would need
>>> to get the upstream Linux sources and do this all manually and maybe
>>> select a very limited set of modules etc etc.
>>>
>>> All of this is a waste of time on older hardware.
>>>
>>> I will try again with the ORACLE S7-2 when I can.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> In kernel sources there are support to sparc32 and sparc64
>> architectures. Your bug is not related with lack of arch support. Is
>> related with a trouble linking because probably a misconfiguration. As I
>> have said you, make menuconfig, disable namespaces, save .config and
>> make. That's all what you need.
> 
> Or enable CONFIG_NET to satisfy CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y?

You are right

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Re: [gentoo-user] Does https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999 say Linux kernel on SPARCv9 is not possible?

[Dennis Clarke]

On 9/18/25 05:08, Michael wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 September 2025 03:51:39 British Summer Time Javier Martinez
> wrote:
>> El 18/9/25 a las 4:48, Dennis Clarke escribió:
>>
...

> Or enable CONFIG_NET to satisfy CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y?

Well from way out here in the cheap seats I see this as a Gentoo
problem. I did not change a thing. Just perform the emerge and watch
it fail.  Really, I have similar problems with RISC-V but that is a
platform way way out in left field. To continue the baseball metaphor
here I am just a person that steps up to the plate and wants the
pitcher to throw the ball over the plate. Swing and get a base hit.
Nothing fancy.

What I really get is a ball thrown at my head.

So the pitcher needs a slight adjustment.

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RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken

Re: [gentoo-user] Does https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999 say Linux kernel on SPARCv9 is not possible?

[Javier Martinez]

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El 18/9/25 a las 17:33, Dennis Clarke escribió:
> On 9/18/25 05:08, Michael wrote:
>> On Thursday, 18 September 2025 03:51:39 British Summer Time Javier 
>> Martinez
>> wrote:
>>> El 18/9/25 a las 4:48, Dennis Clarke escribió:
>>>
> ...
> 
>> Or enable CONFIG_NET to satisfy CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y?
> 
> Well from way out here in the cheap seats I see this as a Gentoo
> problem. I did not change a thing. Just perform the emerge and watch
> it fail.  Really, I have similar problems with RISC-V but that is a
> platform way way out in left field. To continue the baseball metaphor
> here I am just a person that steps up to the plate and wants the
> pitcher to throw the ball over the plate. Swing and get a base hit.
> Nothing fancy.
> 
> What I really get is a ball thrown at my head.
> 
> So the pitcher needs a slight adjustment.
> 

And why it should be a gentoo trouble?

genkernel offers you to indicate your own .config if default one don't 
suit your needs. I don't see why it should be a gentoo bug....

However I usually do the classic kernel compilation after suitch my 
options with make menuconfig....

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Re: [gentoo-user] Does https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999 say Linux kernel on SPARCv9 is not possible?

[Michael]

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On Thursday, 18 September 2025 16:33:53 British Summer Time Dennis Clarke 
wrote:
> On 9/18/25 05:08, Michael wrote:
> > On Thursday, 18 September 2025 03:51:39 British Summer Time Javier
> > Martinez
> > 
> > wrote:
> >> El 18/9/25 a las 4:48, Dennis Clarke escribió:
> ...
> 
> > Or enable CONFIG_NET to satisfy CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y?
> 
> Well from way out here in the cheap seats I see this as a Gentoo
> problem. I did not change a thing. Just perform the emerge and watch
> it fail.  Really, I have similar problems with RISC-V but that is a
> platform way way out in left field. To continue the baseball metaphor
> here I am just a person that steps up to the plate and wants the
> pitcher to throw the ball over the plate. Swing and get a base hit.
> Nothing fancy.
> 
> What I really get is a ball thrown at my head.
> 
> So the pitcher needs a slight adjustment.

I am not sure why CONFIG_NET was not enabled, but CONFIG_NAMESPACES is.  I can 
think of security being a probable reason to have network disabled and left as 
a conscious choice, until the rest of the system is configured.  Either way, 
the Gentoo Handbook kernel section refers to configuring the network and you 
can't miss the top level 'Networking support' choice when you run 'make 
menuconfig':

[*] Networking support  --->

Perhaps CONFIG_NAMESPACES should be disabled too.  Your bug report ought to 
receive an explanation, or fix soon.

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[Javier Martinez]

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El 18/9/25 a las 18:13, Michael escribió:
> On Thursday, 18 September 2025 16:33:53 British Summer Time Dennis Clarke
> wrote:
>> On 9/18/25 05:08, Michael wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 18 September 2025 03:51:39 British Summer Time Javier
>>> Martinez
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>> El 18/9/25 a las 4:48, Dennis Clarke escribió:
>> ...
>>
>>> Or enable CONFIG_NET to satisfy CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y?
>>
>> Well from way out here in the cheap seats I see this as a Gentoo
>> problem. I did not change a thing. Just perform the emerge and watch
>> it fail.  Really, I have similar problems with RISC-V but that is a
>> platform way way out in left field. To continue the baseball metaphor
>> here I am just a person that steps up to the plate and wants the
>> pitcher to throw the ball over the plate. Swing and get a base hit.
>> Nothing fancy.
>>
>> What I really get is a ball thrown at my head.
>>
>> So the pitcher needs a slight adjustment.
> 
> I am not sure why CONFIG_NET was not enabled, but CONFIG_NAMESPACES is.  I can
> think of security being a probable reason to have network disabled and left as
> a conscious choice, until the rest of the system is configured.  Either way,
> the Gentoo Handbook kernel section refers to configuring the network and you
> can't miss the top level 'Networking support' choice when you run 'make
> menuconfig':
> 
> [*] Networking support  --->
> 
> Perhaps CONFIG_NAMESPACES should be disabled too.  Your bug report ought to
> receive an explanation, or fix soon.

We have not idea from where this .config come from, one old kernel .config?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Does https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999 say Linux kernel on SPARCv9 is not possible?

[Michael]

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On Thursday, 18 September 2025 17:21:15 British Summer Time Javier Martinez 
wrote:
> El 18/9/25 a las 18:13, Michael escribió:
> 
> > On Thursday, 18 September 2025 16:33:53 British Summer Time Dennis Clarke
> > wrote:
> > 
> >> On 9/18/25 05:08, Michael wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Thursday, 18 September 2025 03:51:39 British Summer Time Javier
> >>> Martinez
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> El 18/9/25 a las 4:48, Dennis Clarke escribió:
> >> 
> >> ...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Or enable CONFIG_NET to satisfy CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Well from way out here in the cheap seats I see this as a Gentoo
> >> problem. I did not change a thing. Just perform the emerge and watch
> >> it fail.  Really, I have similar problems with RISC-V but that is a
> >> platform way way out in left field. To continue the baseball metaphor
> >> here I am just a person that steps up to the plate and wants the
> >> pitcher to throw the ball over the plate. Swing and get a base hit.
> >> Nothing fancy.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> What I really get is a ball thrown at my head.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> So the pitcher needs a slight adjustment.
> > 
> > 
> > I am not sure why CONFIG_NET was not enabled, but CONFIG_NAMESPACES is.  I
> > can
 think of security being a probable reason to have network disabled
> > and left as a conscious choice, until the rest of the system is
> > configured.  Either way, the Gentoo Handbook kernel section refers to
> > configuring the network and you can't miss the top level 'Networking
> > support' choice when you run 'make menuconfig':
> > 
> > [*] Networking support  --->
> > 
> > Perhaps CONFIG_NAMESPACES should be disabled too.  Your bug report ought
> > to
 receive an explanation, or fix soon.
> 
> 
> We have not idea from where this .config come from, one old kernel .config?

Sure, but it should not stop the emerge of 'sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel' unless 
there's missing in the toolchain.

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[Javier Martinez]

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El 18/9/25 a las 18:29, Michael escribió:

>>>>> Or enable CONFIG_NET to satisfy CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y?

CONFIG_NET_NS should depend on CONFIG_NET and in CONFIG_NAMESPACES, 
CONFIG_PID_NS I don't see reason to have CONFIG_NET dependency.


>>> Perhaps CONFIG_NAMESPACES should be disabled too.  Your bug report ought
>>> to
>   receive an explanation, or fix soon.

The problem is that we have not idea about this .config and from where 
it comes. Did it use one old kernel .config? Did him modify 
/etc/genkernel.conf in some way. Did the .config was downloaded from 
some debian site that "had support his architecture"?

We have a lack information.


>>
>>
>> We have not idea from where this .config come from, one old kernel .config?
> 
> Sure, but it should not stop the emerge of 'sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel' unless
> there's missing in the toolchain.

If the .config is wrong as appears to be, yes it is. I have checked 
default .configs from sparc64 and has CONFIG_NET enabled in one 6.6 
gentoo kernel version. Because of this I doubt really that the mistake 
is under default .config file that shipped gentoo sources.

You can check this:

  less /usr/src/linux-6.6.30-gentoo/arch/sparc/configs/sparc64_defconfig


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[Michael]

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On Thursday, 18 September 2025 17:40:08 British Summer Time Javier Martinez 
wrote:
> El 18/9/25 a las 18:29, Michael escribió:


> > Sure, but it should not stop the emerge of 'sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel'
> > unless there's missing in the toolchain.
> 
> 
> If the .config is wrong as appears to be, yes it is. I have checked 
> default .configs from sparc64 and has CONFIG_NET enabled in one 6.6 
> gentoo kernel version. Because of this I doubt really that the mistake 
> is under default .config file that shipped gentoo sources.
> 
> You can check this:
> 
>   less /usr/src/linux-6.6.30-gentoo/arch/sparc/configs/sparc64_defconfig
> 

Oops!  My bad.  I misread the bug report.  The OP was not emerging 'sys-
kernel/gentoo-sources', but 'sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel' which should emerge and 
install.

The bug report includes a .config file, which has set:

CONFIG_NET_NS=y
CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
CONFIG_PID_NS=y
CONFIG_NET_NS=y

among others.

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[Javier Martinez]

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El 18/9/25 a las 18:53, Michael escribió:
> On Thursday, 18 September 2025 17:40:08 British Summer Time Javier Martinez
> wrote:
>> El 18/9/25 a las 18:29, Michael escribió:
> 
> 
>>> Sure, but it should not stop the emerge of 'sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel'
>>> unless there's missing in the toolchain.
>>
>>
>> If the .config is wrong as appears to be, yes it is. I have checked
>> default .configs from sparc64 and has CONFIG_NET enabled in one 6.6
>> gentoo kernel version. Because of this I doubt really that the mistake
>> is under default .config file that shipped gentoo sources.
>>
>> You can check this:
>>
>>    less /usr/src/linux-6.6.30-gentoo/arch/sparc/configs/sparc64_defconfig
>>
> 
> Oops!  My bad.  I misread the bug report.  The OP was not emerging 'sys-
> kernel/gentoo-sources', but 'sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel' which should emerge and
> install.
> 
> The bug report includes a .config file, which has set:
> 
> CONFIG_NET_NS=y
> CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
> CONFIG_PID_NS=y
> CONFIG_NET_NS=y
> 
> among others.


IMHO Gentoo_kernel compiles kernel with genkernel, and genkernel usually 
makes use OLDCONFIG="yes" by default with SAVE_CONFIG="yes" in 
/etc/genkernel.conf. We have not idea from where their .config comes 
from since 6.6 kernel has CONFIG_NET enable in their default .config in 
sparc64, I don't see any reason to don't be enabled in one recent kernel...


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[Javier Martinez]

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El 18/9/25 a las 18:53, Michael escribió:
> On Thursday, 18 September 2025 17:40:08 British Summer Time Javier Martinez
> wrote:
>> El 18/9/25 a las 18:29, Michael escribió:
> 
> 
>>> Sure, but it should not stop the emerge of 'sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel'
>>> unless there's missing in the toolchain.
>>
>>
>> If the .config is wrong as appears to be, yes it is. I have checked
>> default .configs from sparc64 and has CONFIG_NET enabled in one 6.6
>> gentoo kernel version. Because of this I doubt really that the mistake
>> is under default .config file that shipped gentoo sources.
>>
>> You can check this:
>>
>>    less /usr/src/linux-6.6.30-gentoo/arch/sparc/configs/sparc64_defconfig
>>
> 
> Oops!  My bad.  I misread the bug report.  The OP was not emerging 'sys-
> kernel/gentoo-sources', but 'sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel' which should emerge and
> install.
> 
> The bug report includes a .config file, which has set:
> 
> CONFIG_NET_NS=y
> CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
> CONFIG_PID_NS=y
> CONFIG_NET_NS=y
> 
> among others.

Take note that  he is running one

System uname: Linux-6.14.2-t2-sparc64-sun4u-with-glibc2.42.

May be he is using .config from host system??

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Re: [gentoo-user] Does https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999 say Linux kernel on SPARCv9 is not possible?

[Javier Martinez]

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El 18/9/25 a las 18:53, Michael escribió:
> On Thursday, 18 September 2025 17:40:08 British Summer Time Javier Martinez
> wrote:
>> El 18/9/25 a las 18:29, Michael escribió:
> 
> 
>>> Sure, but it should not stop the emerge of 'sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel'
>>> unless there's missing in the toolchain.
>>
>>
>> If the .config is wrong as appears to be, yes it is. I have checked
>> default .configs from sparc64 and has CONFIG_NET enabled in one 6.6
>> gentoo kernel version. Because of this I doubt really that the mistake
>> is under default .config file that shipped gentoo sources.
>>
>> You can check this:
>>
>>    less /usr/src/linux-6.6.30-gentoo/arch/sparc/configs/sparc64_defconfig
>>
> 
> Oops!  My bad.  I misread the bug report.  The OP was not emerging 'sys-
> kernel/gentoo-sources', but 'sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel' which should emerge and
> install.
> 
> The bug report includes a .config file, which has set:
> 
> CONFIG_NET_NS=y
> CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
> CONFIG_PID_NS=y
> CONFIG_NET_NS=y
> 
> among others.

Maybe one zgrep CONFIG_NET /proc/config.gz could give as more info.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Does https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999 say Linux kernel on SPARCv9 is not possible?

[Dennis Clarke]

On 9/18/25 13:23, Javier Martinez wrote:
> El 18/9/25 a las 18:53, Michael escribió:
>> On Thursday, 18 September 2025 17:40:08 British Summer Time Javier 
>> Martinez
>> wrote:
>>> El 18/9/25 a las 18:29, Michael escribió:
>>
...
>>
>> Oops!  My bad.  I misread the bug report.  The OP was not emerging 'sys-
>> kernel/gentoo-sources', but 'sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel' which should 
>> emerge and
>> install.
>>
>> The bug report includes a .config file, which has set:
>>
>> CONFIG_NET_NS=y
>> CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
>> CONFIG_PID_NS=y
>> CONFIG_NET_NS=y
>>
>> among others.
> 
> Maybe one zgrep CONFIG_NET /proc/config.gz could give as more info.

With complete honesty I do not know what the next reasonable step is.
I have unplugged the machine because this has taken a week of my time
and the end result is "does not work". So I may look at it again next
week.

For now I have an ORACLE S7-2 server to begin work on and my plan is to
get Linux running on that. With a great deal of luck the Gentoo handbook
procedure will "just work" or maybe we land here in two days with the
same problem. Regardless I would rather deal with this using a 4.2GHz
processor than the old old SPARCv9 500MHz unit.


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UNIX and Linux spoken

Re: [gentoo-user] Does https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999 say Linux kernel on SPARCv9 is not possible?

[Javier Martinez]

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El 18/9/25 a las 23:26, Dennis Clarke escribió:
> On 9/18/25 13:23, Javier Martinez wrote:
>> El 18/9/25 a las 18:53, Michael escribió:
>>> On Thursday, 18 September 2025 17:40:08 British Summer Time Javier 
>>> Martinez
>>> wrote:
>>>> El 18/9/25 a las 18:29, Michael escribió:
>>>
> ...
>>>
>>> Oops!  My bad.  I misread the bug report.  The OP was not emerging 'sys-
>>> kernel/gentoo-sources', but 'sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel' which should 
>>> emerge and
>>> install.
>>>
>>> The bug report includes a .config file, which has set:
>>>
>>> CONFIG_NET_NS=y
>>> CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
>>> CONFIG_PID_NS=y
>>> CONFIG_NET_NS=y
>>>
>>> among others.
>>
>> Maybe one zgrep CONFIG_NET /proc/config.gz could give as more info.
> 
> With complete honesty I do not know what the next reasonable step is.
> I have unplugged the machine because this has taken a week of my time
> and the end result is "does not work". So I may look at it again next
> week.
> 
> For now I have an ORACLE S7-2 server to begin work on and my plan is to
> get Linux running on that. With a great deal of luck the Gentoo handbook
> procedure will "just work" or maybe we land here in two days with the
> same problem. Regardless I would rather deal with this using a 4.2GHz
> processor than the old old SPARCv9 500MHz unit.
> 
> 
get into kernel sources dir
make menuconfig
switch on CONFIG_NET
make
install the kernel

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Re: [gentoo-user] Does https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999 say Linux kernel on SPARCv9 is not possible?

[Dennis Clarke]

...
>>>> The bug report includes a .config file, which has set:
>>>>
>>>> CONFIG_NET_NS=y
>>>> CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
>>>> CONFIG_PID_NS=y
>>>> CONFIG_NET_NS=y
>>>>
>>>> among others.
>>>
>>> Maybe one zgrep CONFIG_NET /proc/config.gz could give as more info.
>>
>> With complete honesty I do not know what the next reasonable step is.
>> I have unplugged the machine because this has taken a week of my time
>> and the end result is "does not work". So I may look at it again next
>> week.
>>
>> For now I have an ORACLE S7-2 server to begin work on and my plan is to
>> get Linux running on that. With a great deal of luck the Gentoo handbook
>> procedure will "just work" or maybe we land here in two days with the
>> same problem. Regardless I would rather deal with this using a 4.2GHz
>> processor than the old old SPARCv9 500MHz unit.
>>
>>
> get into kernel sources dir

I don't think that is specific enough. I see a whole whack of stuff :

chroot# cd /var/db/repos/gentoo/sys-kernel/
chroot# ls -la
total 144
drwxr-xr-x  33 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 181 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:24 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 portage portage 5418 Sep 10 10:11 Manifest.gz
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 asahi-sources
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 bliss-initramfs
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 cryptodev
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 dkms
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 dracut
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 dracut-crypt-ssh
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 genkernel
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 gentoo-kernel
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 gentoo-kernel-bin
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 gentoo-sources
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 git-sources
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 installkernel
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 kci-dev
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 kergen
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 kpatch
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 linux-docs
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 linux-firmware
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 linux-headers
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 linux-next
-rw-r--r--   1 portage portage 1472 Sep 11  2021 metadata.xml
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 mips-sources
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 modprobed-db
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 pf-sources
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 raspberrypi-image
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 raspberrypi-sources
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 rt-sources
drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 scx
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 ugrd
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 vanilla-kernel
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 vanilla-sources
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 virtme-ng
drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 zen-sources
chroot#


> make menuconfig

I don't think that will work unless a pile of ncurses stuff is in place.

> switch on CONFIG_NET

If I can ever get to it.

> make
> install the kernel

If lucky :/



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Re: [gentoo-user] Does https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999 say Linux kernel on SPARCv9 is not possible?

[Javier Martinez]

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El 19/9/25 a las 20:34, Dennis Clarke escribió:
> ...
>>>>> The bug report includes a .config file, which has set:
>>>>>
>>>>> CONFIG_NET_NS=y
>>>>> CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
>>>>> CONFIG_PID_NS=y
>>>>> CONFIG_NET_NS=y
>>>>>
>>>>> among others.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe one zgrep CONFIG_NET /proc/config.gz could give as more info.
>>>
>>> With complete honesty I do not know what the next reasonable step is.
>>> I have unplugged the machine because this has taken a week of my time
>>> and the end result is "does not work". So I may look at it again next
>>> week.
>>>
>>> For now I have an ORACLE S7-2 server to begin work on and my plan is to
>>> get Linux running on that. With a great deal of luck the Gentoo handbook
>>> procedure will "just work" or maybe we land here in two days with the
>>> same problem. Regardless I would rather deal with this using a 4.2GHz
>>> processor than the old old SPARCv9 500MHz unit.
>>>
>>>
>> get into kernel sources dir
> 
> I don't think that is specific enough. I see a whole whack of stuff :
> 
> chroot# cd /var/db/repos/gentoo/sys-kernel/
> chroot# ls -la
> total 144
> drwxr-xr-x  33 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 .
> drwxr-xr-x 181 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:24 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 portage portage 5418 Sep 10 10:11 Manifest.gz
> drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 asahi-sources
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 bliss-initramfs
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 cryptodev
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 dkms
> drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 dracut
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 dracut-crypt-ssh
> drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 genkernel
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 gentoo-kernel
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 gentoo-kernel-bin
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 gentoo-sources
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 git-sources
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 installkernel
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 kci-dev
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 kergen
> drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 kpatch
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 linux-docs
> drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 linux-firmware
> drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 linux-headers
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 linux-next
> -rw-r--r--   1 portage portage 1472 Sep 11  2021 metadata.xml
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 mips-sources
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 modprobed-db
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 pf-sources
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 raspberrypi-image
> drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 raspberrypi-sources
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 rt-sources
> drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 scx
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 ugrd
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 vanilla-kernel
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 vanilla-sources
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 virtme-ng
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 zen-sources
> chroot#
> 
> 
>> make menuconfig
> 
> I don't think that will work unless a pile of ncurses stuff is in place.
> 
>> switch on CONFIG_NET
> 
> If I can ever get to it.
> 
>> make
>> install the kernel
> 
> If lucky :/
> 
> 
> 
nano .config

CONFIG_NET=y

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Re: [gentoo-user] Does https://bugs.gentoo.org/962999 say Linux kernel on SPARCv9 is not possible?

[Michael]

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On Friday, 19 September 2025 19:37:10 British Summer Time Javier Martinez 
wrote:
> El 19/9/25 a las 20:34, Dennis Clarke escribió:
> 
> > ...
> > 
> >>>>> The bug report includes a .config file, which has set:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> CONFIG_NET_NS=y
> >>>>> CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
> >>>>> CONFIG_PID_NS=y
> >>>>> CONFIG_NET_NS=y
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> among others.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Maybe one zgrep CONFIG_NET /proc/config.gz could give as more info.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> With complete honesty I do not know what the next reasonable step is.
> >>> I have unplugged the machine because this has taken a week of my time
> >>> and the end result is "does not work". So I may look at it again next
> >>> week.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> For now I have an ORACLE S7-2 server to begin work on and my plan is to
> >>> get Linux running on that. With a great deal of luck the Gentoo
> >>> handbook
> >>> procedure will "just work" or maybe we land here in two days with the
> >>> same problem. Regardless I would rather deal with this using a 4.2GHz
> >>> processor than the old old SPARCv9 500MHz unit.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> get into kernel sources dir
> > 
> > 
> > I don't think that is specific enough. I see a whole whack of stuff :
> > 
> > chroot# cd /var/db/repos/gentoo/sys-kernel/
> > chroot# ls -la
> > total 144
> > drwxr-xr-x  33 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 181 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:24 ..
> > -rw-r--r--   1 portage portage 5418 Sep 10 10:11 Manifest.gz
> > drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 asahi-sources
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 bliss-initramfs
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 cryptodev
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 dkms
> > drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 dracut
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 dracut-crypt-ssh
> > drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 genkernel
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 gentoo-kernel
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 gentoo-kernel-bin
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 gentoo-sources
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 git-sources
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 installkernel
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 kci-dev
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 kergen
> > drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 kpatch
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 linux-docs
> > drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 linux-firmware
> > drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 linux-headers
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 linux-next
> > -rw-r--r--   1 portage portage 1472 Sep 11  2021 metadata.xml
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 mips-sources
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 modprobed-db
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 pf-sources
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 raspberrypi-image
> > drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 raspberrypi-sources
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 rt-sources
> > drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 scx
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 ugrd
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 vanilla-kernel
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 22:06 vanilla-sources
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 virtme-ng
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage 4096 Sep 10 15:02 zen-sources
> > chroot#

This is the wrong directory - only the ebuild files are found in there rather 
than the kernel tree.  The latter failed at the compilation stage because the 
.config file it used appears to have CONFIG_NET disabled.

First you will need to create a .config file for your kernel.

ebuild /var/db/repos/gentoo/sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel/gentoo-kernel-
X.x.x.ebuild configure

Adjust the above X.x.x version as per the kernel version you want to install.

Note which directory the source is unpacked - normally this will be in /var/
tmp/portage/...

cd into it and run:

make nconfig

Or, 

> >> make menuconfig
> > 
> > 
> > I don't think that will work unless a pile of ncurses stuff is in place.

You should have a fully functioning ncurses within the LiveISO, or whatever OS 
you chrooted from:

~ $ ls -la /usr/lib64/libncurses.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 13 12:23 /usr/lib64/libncurses.so -> 
libncurses.so.6


> >> switch on CONFIG_NET
> > 
> > 
> > If I can ever get to it.

I hope the CONFIG_NET will be already enabled, if not then enable it and save 
the changed .config when you exit.

You have to copy the edited .config from the /var/tmp/portage subdirectory it 
was saved in, to /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel

Finally, you must enable USE="savedconfig" for sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel, 
before you re-emerge it.

For more details please read this page:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Distribution_Kernel


> >> make
> >> install the kernel
> > 
> > 
> > If lucky :/

You shouldn't need to run 'make && make modules_install && make install', 
because emerging a Distribution Kernel should do this automatically for you.

HTH.

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