Re: Debian with Reiser4-patched Linux kernel on IBM Power8

[Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>]

On 04/20/2016 01:11 PM, Jonáš Vidra wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 12:53:48 +0200 Jose R R <Jose.r.r@metztli-it.com> 
> wrote:
>
> > is there any reason why Reiser4 SFRN 4.0.1-enabled Debian should not
> > run on Power8? I assume GPT should be selected whereas previously I
> > have tested -- on AMD64 baremetal and cloud -- only MSDOS disk
> > partitioning.
>
> There might be some problems with the endianness of the system.


Yup. Specifically, bitmap code sucks.
I don't remember details though..

Edward.


> I have tested Reiser4 on 32bit PowerPC several years ago and as far as I
> remember, mounting and using a preformatted partition (mkfs done on an 
> x86
> machine) was possible, but a partition formatted on PowerPC was unusable.
> I can repeat the tests, if you are interested.