Re: Compatible Debian PPC64 B.E for L.E servers
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 05:04:48PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I had to re-read this several times and just to be clear: You can still
> run big-endian code perfectly fine on POWER8 machines and newer (unless
> IBM removed support with POWER10).
You can, but it seems very few people do. I have not read anything to
indicate they were getting rid of big endian support. Hopefully not.
> In fact, we are running the little-endian port on the POWER8 server we got
> from IBM to host two ppc64 big-endian KVM VMs (one buildd and one Debian
> porterbox). Although that causes the host kernel to crash regularly with
> no fix in sight yet, unfortunately [1].
Ouch, that's annoying given they claim that is supposed to work just fine.
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Len Sorensen
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