On 2025-07-22 23:02, Paul Gevers wrote:
Hi,
On 22-07-2025 14:43, Trupti wrote:
I upgraded my system from Bookworm to Trixie using apt full-upgrade.
The system is now running Trixie, but it's still using the old
Bookworm kernel (6.1.0-37-powerpc64le).
Did you reboot? Can you check what you have in /boot?
Is there a way to make sure the system automatically installs and uses
the latest 64K kernel during the upgrade?
Currently only by installing the non-default kernel. Because the
default upgrade path should install the 4k kernel.
Paul
Yes, I did reboot after the full upgrade. The system is now running the
Trixie kernel, but it’s still using the default 4K page size. My goal
was to upgrade to Trixie with the 64K kernel, but the upgrade path
installs only the 4K kernel by default, and switching to 64K requires
manually installing the linux-image-powerpc64le-64k package.
This isn’t just about avoiding manual steps — as mentioned earlier, 64K
is the recommended page size for ppc64el, and other distributions like
Ubuntu already use it by default on Power.
As Pascal pointed out earlier, offering this choice in the installer
(e.g., via expert install) would require including the 64K kernel
packages in the ISO image itself. That’s why I’m requesting that the 64K
kernel be included in the installation images — so users can choose
between kernel flavours at install time without needing post-install
steps. It would be helpful if this could be considered for future Debian
releases.
Thanks Trupti.
