On 11/23/2016 10:18 PM, Clint Adams wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:43:49PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> Running qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu POWER8 (version 1:2.7+dfsg-3+b1) did not >> fail for me using debian-testing-ppc64el-netinst.iso > > Yes, indeed. I have no idea what the default is, but -cpu POWER8 > solves the problem.
Right. You need to have POWER8 or later in order to run ppc64el, at least 'unstable'. GCC is, by default, compiling with --with-cpu=power8.
