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

[Richard Yao]

On 10/21/2015 04:55 AM, Kevin Zhao wrote:
> Hi Guys， We have finish compiling stage3 for ppc64  (little-endian).Here is
> the link:
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2k84p6709AyTFlwLUF1WjlxUk0/view?usp=sharing

Awesome!

>  Now we are going to build LiveCD using stage3.  Could you help to give
> some demo or a guide for building LiveCD? That will help we a lot to make
> effort.
> Thanks ~

I suggest asking in #gentoo-releng on freenode or the Gentoo release
engineering mailing ilst.
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> 2015-09-27 3:16 GMT+08:00 Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o>:
>
>> On 9/24/15 8:23 AM, Leno Hou wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>           Again, please apply POWER8 Systems and join our work  :-)
>>>           [1]: https://www.runabove.com/instances/ibm-power8.xml
>>>           [2]: https://ptopenlab.com/cloudlabconsole/#/
>>>           [3]: http://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/request_hosting
>>>
>>>
>>> -Leno Hou
>>>>
>>>>
>> I have applied to osuosl for an ibm power8 ppc64le node.  I've put myself
>> down as the point-of-contact.  I asked for openstack gui access and will
>> try to build a system using Leno's stage3.  I'm not sure what the env looks
>> like right now, but i assume i'll have to boot off a cd image.  I'll use
>> debians.  I guess I could be macho and try to build everything from
>> scratch, cross compile a kernel and all, but  .... time.
>>
>> Has anyone tried qemu simulating ppc64le on amd64?  Lu I thought you said
>> you tried on x86 and it didn't work.
>>
>>
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