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On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o> |
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> On 8/12/15 3:47 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>> 4. I would like become a developer of porting gentoo on ppc64le. Anyone |
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>>> could help/mentor me to join this project ? |
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>> ideally someone on the ppc side would pick you up, but i think they've |
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>> a bit of a skeleton team of late. so if need be, i can help you here. |
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> I can help out here. |
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See in my mail |
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> **Most importantly, Any Ideas/steps of how to porting gentoo on ppc64le |
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>>> architecture?** |
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>> do you have hardware ? then it's simply a matter of booting Gentoo in it |
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>> and |
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>> filing/fixing bugs :). |
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>> -mike |
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> We should also start building stage3s. |
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> -- |
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> Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] |
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> E-Mail : blueness@g.o |
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Appreciated your efforts and comments. |
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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 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 to |
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ppc64le grub ? |
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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, how |
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to reach these guys? |
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- For hardware environment, does anyone have Power8 systems ? |
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-Leno Hou |
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