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Re: Architecture qualification for wheezy - status of Linux kernel



On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 02:37:56PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 
> > Debian have access to at least one Power7 machine located at OSUOSL. The
> > machine list shows three LPAR running on it.
> 
> Yes, the project has these resources.  But a kernel porter will of
> course need to install and test new kernels.  Does the porterbox provide
> nested virtualisation for any developer?  (For some reason we haven't
> enabled KVM_BOOK3S_64, which I think means the answer is currently 'no',
> but we can fix that part, leaving the administrative issue of
> permissions to use KVM.)
> 
> How about other PowerPC hardware, in particular 32-bit machines?  How,
> if at all, would a new kernel porter support these?
Should qemu be used to test PowerPC architecture? In a sense, Qemu can 
simulate ppc and ppc64. 



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