Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

[Leno Hou]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o>
wrote:

> On 9/25/15 1:05 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
>> On 25 Sep 2015 10:32, Leno Hou wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 14 Aug 2015 15:52, Leno Hou wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 12 Aug 2015 15:20, Leno Hou wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> **Most importantly, Any Ideas/steps of how to  porting gentoo on
>>>>>>> ppc64le architecture?**
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> do you have hardware ?  then it's simply a matter of booting Gentoo in
>>>>>> it and filing/fixing bugs :).
>>>>>>
>>>>> YES. We have KVM virtual machine of ppc64le.  Can we
>>>>> booting/filing/fixing by KVM ?
>>>>>
>>>> KVM is fine.  i'm assuming you can't boot a ppc64le vm when the host is
>>>> ppc64be ?
>>>>
>>> We can boot ppc64le by KVM on POWER7  (abbrev. PowerKVM)
>>> and KVM on Power7 is big endian. If you have real POWER7 hardware,
>>>
>> we have a Gentoo box running on a POWER7 from IBM:
>>         IBM,8231-E2B POWER7 32 x 3.5GHz
>>
>> it has KVM enabled in it.  so i guess we should be able to start a LE
>> instance in KVM there.
>>
>> you can install Ubuntu or RedHat ( integrated with KVM by default) on
>>> POWER7.
>>>
>> are you really making this suggestion on a Gentoo list ? ;)
>> booting other distros isn't generally interesting to us.
>> don't you already have a Gentoo instance booting ?
>> -mike
>>
>
> @Leno, can you give me a url where i can download the stage3 and i'll try
> to set up a development environment on our power7.
>
> --
> Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
>

Download ppc64le seed stage3 here. http://pan.baidu.com/s/1uiVtc

-Leno Hou