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On 25 Sep 2015 10:32, Leno Hou wrote: |
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> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On 14 Aug 2015 15:52, Leno Hou wrote: |
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> > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > > > On 12 Aug 2015 15:20, Leno Hou wrote: |
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> > > > > **Most importantly, Any Ideas/steps of how to porting gentoo on |
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> > > > > ppc64le architecture?** |
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> > > > |
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> > > > do you have hardware ? then it's simply a matter of booting Gentoo in |
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> > > > it and filing/fixing bugs :). |
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> > > YES. We have KVM virtual machine of ppc64le. Can we |
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> > > booting/filing/fixing by KVM ? |
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> > KVM is fine. i'm assuming you can't boot a ppc64le vm when the host is |
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> > ppc64be ? |
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> We can boot ppc64le by KVM on POWER7 (abbrev. PowerKVM) |
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> and KVM on Power7 is big endian. If you have real POWER7 hardware, |
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we have a Gentoo box running on a POWER7 from IBM: |
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IBM,8231-E2B POWER7 32 x 3.5GHz |
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it has KVM enabled in it. so i guess we should be able to start a LE |
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instance in KVM there. |
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> you can install Ubuntu or RedHat ( integrated with KVM by default) on |
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> POWER7. |
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are you really making this suggestion on a Gentoo list ? ;) |
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booting other distros isn't generally interesting to us. |
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don't you already have a Gentoo instance booting ? |
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-mike |
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