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Re: Adding ppc64el support in debian-cd



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?

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).

-- 
Len Sorensen


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