Re: Adding ppc64el support in debian-cd
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:57:44AM -0300, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote:
>On 09/22/2014 12:00 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 06:19:43PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>>I'm adding support for new architectures at the moment. powerpc is one
>>>of the most awkward existing arches to add boot support for at the
>>>moment, due to the mess of older machines. I'm hoping that ppc64el is
>>>better, but I don't have much information to go on. What should we be
>>>doing to make bootable CD/DVD/USB images for ppc64el, please?
>
>Aurelien and Paulo know more about the bootable status/steps than me.
>
>I believe that w/ the grub2 and klibc uploads from this last weekend,
>it's almost there. There's powerpc-utils & util-linux coming in from
>DELAYED in 2 days & 5 days.
OK, cool.
>>I thought only power8 machines were able to run ppc64el so far, and
>>those would be openfirmware I imagine (every other IBM power machine I
>>have worked with was).
>
>Yes, ppc64el runs on POWER8 onwards with OpenFirmware based firmware.
Right. I'll start working based on that shortly.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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