On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 02:58:37PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 02:57:12PM -0300, Gustavo Romero wrote: > > Sorry, I wrote my note super hastily and forgot to mention that I was > > wondering > > about BE specifically. Currently I see kernel 4.16 is used by the installer > > and > > I get a panic regarding a VMX Unavailable Exception on POWER9 powernv (both > > baremetal / OPAL and qemu emulated), so I'm wondering if anybody else is > > catching that panic too etc. I know BE support for PPC64 was dropped > > officially > > by I understand buildd builders are still building it so there are fresh > > packages out there. > > > > Thanks for replying and for the comments! > > I don't believe 64 bit powerpc big endian was ever officially released > by Debian. 32 bit was but was dropped some time ago. > > 64 bit little endian on the other hand is supported.
32-bit BE powerpc and 64-bit BE ppc64 ports are unofficially maintained at debian-ports: https://www.ports.debian.org/ There are installers there. Only unstable is available. Cheers, Michael.
