[gentoo-powerpc] Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

[Leno Hou]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Leno Hou <lenohou@×××××.com> wrote:

>
> 2. We believe to make Gentoo support ppc64le, we still need to compile
> kernel and bootloader
>
>    - Which version of kernel provided by Gentoo would you suggest us to
>    use?
>
>           As to Ubuntu, there will be many patches to make the kernel
> workable, so how to patch
>           our Gentoo kernel  to make it work for ppc64le?
>

        Upstream's 4.2.1 is OK  :-)
        I've compiled sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.2.1 on Ubuntu and
successfully booted  Ubuntu as following.
        root@ppc64le:~# uname -a
        Linux ppc64le 4.2.1-gentoo #1 SMP Wed Sep 23 19:28:17 PDT 2015
ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux


>    - Which version of grub suitable for ppc64le ?  Is there any patches
>    to ppc64le grub ?
>
> 3. When the gentoo we make out workable on ppc64le, we would like to know
> the process of
>     making it officially supported by Gentoo community
>
>    - For each arch, do we have a subteam to verify the packages? If so,
>    how to reach these guys?
>    - For hardware environment, does anyone have Power8 systems ?
>
>          Again, please apply POWER8 Systems and join our work  :-)
         [1]: https://www.runabove.com/instances/ibm-power8.xml
         [2]: https://ptopenlab.com/cloudlabconsole/#/
         [3]: http://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/request_hosting


> -Leno Hou
>