Re: P7 linux

Hi Jack,

I’ve had the same challenge as you, and the same problem also exists indirectly on (older) SPARC boxen. I’ve had the best luck with gentoo, mainly because it builds everything from source. Gentoo is sadly not the most user friendly distribution.

One of my long term plans was to revive the ppc64be port for Debian, but my main challenge is that I don’t have enough P7 machines to build enough of a package set to pull this off.

Are there any people here willing to help me with that?

/y

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Subject: Re: P7 linux

Hello Jack,

Am 05.04.2020 um 12:35 schrieb Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Jack Kingsley, it looks like Power 7 ppc64be is dead, dead, dead ... only
little-endian support these days

No. As for Debian, not true anymore. See here: https://wiki.debian.org/PPC64

Or did I miss something?

:wq! PoC

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