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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:00:18
Message-Id: 5605292A.20005@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments by Leno Hou
1 On 9/25/15 5:09 AM, Leno Hou wrote:
2 > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o>
3 > wrote:
4 >
5 >> On 9/25/15 1:05 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
6 >>
7 >>> On 25 Sep 2015 10:32, Leno Hou wrote:
8 >>>
9 >>>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
10 >>>>
11 >>>>> On 14 Aug 2015 15:52, Leno Hou wrote:
12 >>>>>
13 >>>>>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
14 >>>>>>
15 >>>>>>> On 12 Aug 2015 15:20, Leno Hou wrote:
16 >>>>>>>
17 >>>>>>>> **Most importantly, Any Ideas/steps of how to porting gentoo on
18 >>>>>>>> ppc64le architecture?**
19 >>>>>>>>
20 >>>>>>> do you have hardware ? then it's simply a matter of booting Gentoo in
21 >>>>>>> it and filing/fixing bugs :).
22 >>>>>>>
23 >>>>>> YES. We have KVM virtual machine of ppc64le. Can we
24 >>>>>> booting/filing/fixing by KVM ?
25 >>>>>>
26 >>>>> KVM is fine. i'm assuming you can't boot a ppc64le vm when the host is
27 >>>>> ppc64be ?
28 >>>>>
29 >>>> We can boot ppc64le by KVM on POWER7 (abbrev. PowerKVM)
30 >>>> and KVM on Power7 is big endian. If you have real POWER7 hardware,
31 >>>>
32 >>> we have a Gentoo box running on a POWER7 from IBM:
33 >>> IBM,8231-E2B POWER7 32 x 3.5GHz
34 >>>
35 >>> it has KVM enabled in it. so i guess we should be able to start a LE
36 >>> instance in KVM there.
37 >>>
38 >>> you can install Ubuntu or RedHat ( integrated with KVM by default) on
39 >>>> POWER7.
40 >>>>
41 >>> are you really making this suggestion on a Gentoo list ? ;)
42 >>> booting other distros isn't generally interesting to us.
43 >>> don't you already have a Gentoo instance booting ?
44 >>> -mike
45 >>>
46 >> @Leno, can you give me a url where i can download the stage3 and i'll try
47 >> to set up a development environment on our power7.
48 >>
49 >> --
50 >> Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
51 >>
52 > Download ppc64le seed stage3 here. http://pan.baidu.com/s/1uiVtc
53 >
54 > -Leno Hou
55 >
56 baidu is a terrible site. it keeps failing. is there another site you
57 can use?
58
59 --
60 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
61 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
62 E-Mail : blueness@g.o
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