Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port
Hi Konstantinos,
Thanks for being interested in it. I am also willing to help.
Why not using a remote VM on a new POWER machine hosted at Unicamp?
You have been doing so using the IBM POWER mini cloud[1], and the mini cloud will
continue to exist for long. In fact, the minicloud has some idle resources for
now, and it should grow soon. We are expecting to receive some new POWER8 to add
to the mini cloud.
Other than that, if you have any special requirement (as a full machine), I can
work to have it for you, during the bootstrap process. Let me know.
Also, We are trying to replace Debian infrastructure removing old powerpc hardware
used to do building and replace it with VMs on the new POWER machines. If ppc64
gets accept in Debian, I understand that they would use VM on the current POWER
machines that the DSA owns, other than these old hardware.
[1] http://openpower.ic.unicamp.br/minicloud/
On 02/02/2015 06:22 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 09:44:44PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'd like to help on the ppc64 port, I have ppc32 hardware,
>> ppc64/ppc64el remote VM accounts but no actual ppc64 hardware. I
>> just lost an extremely low bid for an imac g5 on ebay and am short
>> on cash for another, but if anyone has a spare G5 (any model, but pref
>> imac so that it can be easy to ship) in working order and is willing to
>> part with it, I could handle the shipping costs (please, only within
>> the EU, I've had the unhappy experience of paying insane shipping costs
>> for buying a big box from the US :)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> PS. I've resumed my work powerpc, which I didn't deal with in years,
>> and until this [1] becomes real (I have a pretty good hunch/inside info
>> that it will), I'd like to help to get the port up to speed.
>>
>> [1] http://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/
>
> I guess no one is selling IBM pSeries servers used for cheap.
>
> Are any of the freescale eval boards reasonably priced? After all any
> e5500 or e6500 core is PPC64 as well. It seems a T1040 eval board is
> $1250 US for a 1.4GHz quad core e5500 (64 bit PPC). I have no idea how
> that compares to a used G5 in price.
>
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