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From: "Taiidan@×××.com" <Taiidan@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to harden a system
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 18:33:41
Message-Id: 8475e547-dc28-0769-8eff-1074c348bb21@gmx.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: How to harden a system by Ian Zimmerman
1 On 12/25/2017 06:33 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
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3 > On 2017-12-24 14:44, Taiidan@×××.com wrote:
4 >
5 >> POWER 9: TALOS 2 (server/workstation, brand new and very high
6 >> performance - the only brand new hardware that is legitimately libre)
7 > This is interesting, but can it run gentoo? There's a handbook edition
8 > for PPC64, but that's not quite the same, is it?
9 It is.
10 PPC64 is big endian, PPC64LE is little endian.
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12 POWER8/9 are Bi-Endian so you can use both (most linux distros only
13 support little)
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15 PPC64 compile covers PowerPC and POWER.
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18 TALOS 2 is an end user obtainable derivative of the Romulus POWER 9
19 development board, there are a variety of modifications and it is more
20 open source than Romulus - you can also pay for it with bitcoin.
21 It supports dual sforza CPU's which have up to 24 cores per socket with
22 SMT4 (4 threads at the same time per core)