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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 17:22:09
Message-Id: 560582B2.4020309@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On 9/25/15 6:59 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
2 > On 9/25/15 5:09 AM, Leno Hou wrote:
3 >> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o>
4 >> wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> On 9/25/15 1:05 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>>> On 25 Sep 2015 10:32, Leno Hou wrote:
9 >>>>
10 >>>>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
11 >>>>>
12 >>>>>> On 14 Aug 2015 15:52, Leno Hou wrote:
13 >>>>>>
14 >>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
15 >>>>>>>
16 >>>>>>>> On 12 Aug 2015 15:20, Leno Hou wrote:
17 >>>>>>>>
18 >>>>>>>>> **Most importantly, Any Ideas/steps of how to porting gentoo on
19 >>>>>>>>> ppc64le architecture?**
20 >>>>>>>>>
21 >>>>>>>> do you have hardware ? then it's simply a matter of booting
22 >>>>>>>> Gentoo in
23 >>>>>>>> it and filing/fixing bugs :).
24 >>>>>>>>
25 >>>>>>> YES. We have KVM virtual machine of ppc64le. Can we
26 >>>>>>> booting/filing/fixing by KVM ?
27 >>>>>>>
28 >>>>>> KVM is fine. i'm assuming you can't boot a ppc64le vm when the
29 >>>>>> host is
30 >>>>>> ppc64be ?
31 >>>>>>
32 >>>>> We can boot ppc64le by KVM on POWER7 (abbrev. PowerKVM)
33 >>>>> and KVM on Power7 is big endian. If you have real POWER7 hardware,
34 >>>>>
35 >>>> we have a Gentoo box running on a POWER7 from IBM:
36 >>>> IBM,8231-E2B POWER7 32 x 3.5GHz
37 >>>>
38 >>>> it has KVM enabled in it. so i guess we should be able to start a LE
39 >>>> instance in KVM there.
40 >>>>
41 >>>> you can install Ubuntu or RedHat ( integrated with KVM by default) on
42 >>>>> POWER7.
43 >>>>>
44 >>>> are you really making this suggestion on a Gentoo list ? ;)
45 >>>> booting other distros isn't generally interesting to us.
46 >>>> don't you already have a Gentoo instance booting ?
47 >>>> -mike
48 >>>>
49 >>> @Leno, can you give me a url where i can download the stage3 and
50 >>> i'll try
51 >>> to set up a development environment on our power7.
52 >>>
53 >>> --
54 >>> Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
55 >>>
56 >> Download ppc64le seed stage3 here. http://pan.baidu.com/s/1uiVtc
57 >>
58 >> -Leno Hou
59 >>
60 > baidu is a terrible site. it keeps failing. is there another site
61 > you can use?
62 >
63 it finally downloaded
64
65 --
66 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
67 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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