Re: PPC64 port status
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:54 PM, William Bonnet <william@wbonnet.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am currently working (office work) on a project using PPC64 based
> boards, each board is running a NXP e5500 processor. We plan to use
> Debian, and thus the PPC64 port. So, I have tested the version from
> debian-ports, it is almost working, but it seems that packages have been
> compiled with options which are not compatible with all the PPC64 CPUs,
> especially not compatible with e5500.
>
> I have several questions :
>
> ./ First of all is it the good place to talk about PPC64 ? I have only
> seen a PowerPC mailing list, thus I presume it is about all PowerPCs :)
Indeed !
> ./ Is there a defined "minimal" target for the PPC64 port ? I have
> understood that VMX support is not enabled [1] (please tell me if i am
> wrong). But VMX is not the only optional feature from PowerPC64
> standard, and some CPUs like e5500 do not implement some optional
> opcodes that are used by packages currently available from the ports
> archive. So i would like to know what is the target, and if it is
> possible to consider supporting the "most generic PPC64 target", just
> like it is done for x86 archs ?
Well that's odd. Anyway feel free to report the bug and assign it the
usertags to ppc64:
https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?tag=ppc64&user=debian-powerpc%40lists.debian.org
> ./ I would like to know please if there are some active work on the
> PowerPC64 ports ? If so I'd like to join the effort, and help either to
> port, or tests packages on e5500 boards. I would appreciate to get in
> touch with the PPC64 to know what kind of help is most needed, and
> figure out if I can do something (i.e. do you need acces to a porterbox,
> or whatever ?)
ppc64 recently gained some popularity thanks to the powerpc64el folks.
So it should be mostly 'active'.
-M
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