On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 17:13 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > Holger Wansing <li...@wansing-online.de> wrote: > > Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Breno Leitao, le Fri 10 Apr 2015 17:44:01 -0300, a écrit : > > > > It is still on my github repository. Can you import it? > > > > > > Uh..... I requested this very kind of information in september and > > > november, why wasn't this work (done in december) ever submitted > > > before? We can integrate it in the installation manual, but it will > > > most probably not get translated for the release... > > > > Yeah, it's a shame this has not been presented earlier! > > > > > I'll however be unable to integrate things like "blablabla" (sic)... > > > > The blablabla is indeed only a placeholder which gets removed in a later > > commit. > > Sorry, I did not noticed there were several blablabla, only saw the first > one in preparing. So there is still some content missing indeed, as Samuel > mentioned! But we have several empty sections for other archs or > d-i modules too... > > > If noone objects, I could create one single patch out of that for > > a review here. > > So here we go. > > I have merged Brenos changings in a local tree, and additionally to that: > > in build/entities/common.ent there was the name of the architecture > missing. So what's the exact pronunciation of that arch? > (for powerpc we have "PowerPC" for example) > Is there some special form, or simply ppc64el? > In "Supported hardware" Breno has "Power Systems" as arch name. ??? > The ports page on https://www.debian.org/ports/ lists > https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el/ as basic info page for the > ppc64el port, and there is no mention of "Power Systems"... > Also, in "Instructions for Netboot installation" under preparing > there is the term "PowerLinux machine". > This all should be harmonized to one term. [...]
Based on <http://openpowerfoundation.org/technical/technical-resources/technical-specifications/> I think it's 'PowerPC 64-bit little-endian', or 'PowerISA little-endian'. However, comparing with the way we've named other architectures, '64-bit PowerPC (little-endian)' would be more consistent. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source
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