On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 08:17:22AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 09/22/2017 04:32 PM, Simon Richter wrote: > > I'm trying to get a PS3 to boot with the powerpc64 kernel in stretch, > > but had no luck so far. kexec from the boot menu happens, then the > > screen goes blank and stays that way. I have a 3.5 kernel that boots and > > works fine. > > I'm surprised to learn that the Cell CPU is 64-bit capable. I wouldn't > have exactly expected that from a 2006 machine.
It certainly was when I was porting Ubuntu to it in 2008. (We've long since withdrawn that port, so it's probably not helpful to Simon trying to compare working with non-working builds, though.) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]