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*Leno Hou* |
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E-mail : lenohou@×××××.com |
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Phone : 185-0093-5995 |
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Leno Hou <lenohou@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> This is a great pleasure to announce that we've made ppc64le stage 3. |
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> 1. We've successfully compiled stage 3 for ppc64le. The stage 3 covers |
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> most useful functionalities: |
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> - GNU tool chains. e.g. automake, autoconf, gcc & glibc. |
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> - Normally use Portage, e.g. emerge, ebuild & python |
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> - Normally chroot in this stage 3. |
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> - Not included linux kernel & bootloader yet. |
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> 2. We believe to make Gentoo support ppc64le, we still need to compile |
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> kernel and bootloader |
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> - Which version of kernel provided by Gentoo would you suggest us to |
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> use? |
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> As to Ubuntu, there will be many patches to make the kernel |
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> workable, so how to patch |
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> our Gentoo kernel to make it work for ppc64le? |
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> - Which version of grub suitable for ppc64le ? Is there any patches |
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> to ppc64le grub ? |
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> When I building grub, it happens |
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https://bpaste.net/show/732172bfe927 . |
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CC: grub-dev community , could you give me a hand with ppc64le |
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grub ? |
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Or the latest grub merged ppc64le patches ? |
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> 3. When the gentoo we make out workable on ppc64le, we would like to know |
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> the process of |
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> making it officially supported by Gentoo community |
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> - For each arch, do we have a subteam to verify the packages? If so, |
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> how to reach these guys? |
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> ppc64le are inherit from ppc64 profile. Is that say we should |
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push this portage contains ppc64le |
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profile. And provides this stage 3 made by catalyst ? |
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What my mean is, I known arm64 ( aarch64 ?) was merged to |
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portage, Could you let me know the |
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process of ppc64le as same as arm64 supported by Gentoo community |
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? |
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> - For hardware environment, does anyone have Power8 systems ? |
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> If someone have POWER8 OR POWER 7 systems, it would be nice If |
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you'll join this project. |
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-Leno Hou |
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E-mail: houqy@××××××××××××××.com |
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E-mail: lenohou@×××××.com |
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