Re: NFSroot & Power4 (was Re: Debian non-x86 kernel arches)
> Yeah, but until we have a ppc64 toolchain, that is all we have got, and
> furthermore, the actual testing will go into the infrastructure around
> the kernel, the mkvmlinuz needed to create the zImage.chrp-rs6k from the
> vmlinux and the creation of the initrd, which altough it works well on
> pmac, fails on my pegasos (and probably also on your pseries). Also the
> config needs testing. This part of the testing will mostly be the same
> for the ppc32 and ppc64 kernels, and it is good we need feedback on
> those.
Note that I also don't maintain nor support ppc32 for the g5 neither. It
works, but I will do no special effort on it. We really need to kick the
ppc64 effort into life asap, though that requires at least a more recent
gcc and a more recent glibc, which seems to be yet another can of worms
with debian...
> > Personally, I'd be happy with completely depracating the -power3 and
> > -power4 kernels until we have a 64 bit biarch compiler package.
>
> Nope, first we need to get the biarch toolchain, and then we can
> deprecate the power3 and power4 kernels. This is how things work in
> debian.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Svne Luther
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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