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Re: PPC64 port status



On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:40:52AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> 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
>
> Wow, 5 out of 11 bugs are to do with nouveau.

Let me rephrase that in: "Wow somebody (user)tagged specifically with
ppc64 the nouveau bugs" ... :)

>> ppc64 recently gained some popularity thanks to the powerpc64el folks.
>> So it should be mostly 'active'.
>
> Well not necesarily since ppc64el is not ppc64.  Some overlap but also
> quite different.

This was not clear. But the offer to ppc64 machine(s) was made by the
ppc64el people:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2015/06/msg00015.html

As you mentioned this is non-trivial to get access to a ppc64 machine otherwise.

2cts
-M


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