Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:54 PM, William Bonnet <will...@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
