Re: Linux on P7?

[Scott Williams <scottwill0707@xxxxxxxxx>]

> message: 2
> date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:38:25 -0300
> from: Roberto Jos? Etcheverry Romero    <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: Linux on P7?
>
> There are a few things to take into account. POWER Systems PRE POWER8 only
> run BIG endian distros, that is, ppc64 compiled distros. POWER8 and above
> run both ppc64 and ppc64el (LITTLE endian). Ubuntu is only Little endian.
> Redhat, Suse, Centos, and a lot other have ppc64 distros.
> The "official" tag is a reference to official support. You only care about
> support on production machines.
> I've loaded OpenSUSE on a Power5 machine so you can load without any
> problems on a Power6.
> Like they've said, If the machine had 520b x sector disks you will have to
> reformat them (if they are 2.5" drives AND they support it) or exchange
> them for any SAS disk that fits in the bay (xSeries drives sometimes have
> the same tray and work perfectly for AIX/Linux).
> Obviously you won't have a video adapter unless the machine came with one
> (and they seldom do even when they are AIX machines), so you will only have
> the tty device from the HMC and the ones in the machine itselft, at least
> until you bring up the network.
>
> Best of luck playing with LoP!
This gives me hope to try and get my 8204-E8A Power6 550 up on a open
source Linux distro. Loading IBMi as the primary OS isn't going to happen
without a firmware upgrade that I am not entitled to. Thanks for bringing
up this topic, and I will follow up if I have any success.


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Scott Williams