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On 9/25/15 1:05 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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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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>>>>> 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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@Leno, can you give me a url where i can download the stage3 and i'll |
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try to set up a development environment on our power7. |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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E-Mail : blueness@g.o |
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