[gentoo-powerpc] Re: status of ppc64le

[Leno Hou]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> An update on progress with ppc64le:
>
> 1. I've asked osuosl for a power8 ppc64le standalone system similar to
> timberdoodle.  it has been approved by Jeffrey J. Scheel (
> scheel@××××××.com) but they are short of resources.  The support ticket
> is  but I haven't gotten into their system yet to see where the progress is.
>
>
Have you got the power8 ppc64le from osuosl ?   anything can  I  push this
process forward ?



> 2. When I obtain access to the system, I'll use a bootable ppc64le image
> from debian probably and install the stage3 built by Leno et al.  I put the
> image on my dev space for quick retrieval since the baidu link Leno gave me
> failed a lot:
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~blueness/dist/seed-stage3-ppc64le-20150925.tar.bz2
>
>
How to test the  gentoo ppc64le stage3 made by catalyst ?



> 3. Leno Hou, Zhao Kevin and Linda Jiang have expressed interest in
> becoming gentoo devs.  I can mentor them.  I emailed them back suggesting
> that they start reading the dev manual to get an over view of gentoo, but I
> haven't heard back from them.
>
> Really helpful :-)


Leno Hou