On 10/26/20 12:07 PM, Karl wrote: > Thanks for the answer. Anything else would have surprised me. > >> Am 26.10.2020 um 16:42 schrieb Lennart Sorensen >> <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>: >> >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 12:34:49AM +0100, Karl wrote: >>> will there be a Debian 11 release for PPC64be again or is it Sid? >>> Because on that site, it’s listed as available: >>> https://openpower.ic.unicamp.br/minicloud/ >> >> I don't recall ppc64 ever being an official released architecture. >> ppc was but no longer is, and ppc64el is. >> >> I would guess they are running the ports ppc64 build, which could >> certainly be a build matching Debian 11. >> >> -- >> Len Sorensen >
Provided you don't mind the power usage you may run Debian sid on an old Apple Power Mac machine just fine. In fact the Power Mac quad has decent performance and it is great to have around for doing code test work as it is big endian and has a native 65536 byte memory page size. You would be amazed how much software in the world is written by people on x86 little endian with the 4Kb page size and they never ever test anywhere else. I also have sparc64 running Debian sid but it has some real weird personality issues. Also, the PowerMac quad is a strange name. Really it is a dual socket machine with dual cores and I think the entire machine architecture must have been designed by IBM. The memory is proper ECC memory and thus you can actually trust it. Get one and give it a whirl and try not to smirk at the power usage. They are very power hungry machines. Pretty looking but power hungry. enceladus$ enceladus$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : PPC970MP, altivec supported clock : 2500.000000MHz revision : 1.1 (pvr 0044 0101) processor : 1 cpu : PPC970MP, altivec supported clock : 2500.000000MHz revision : 1.1 (pvr 0044 0101) processor : 2 cpu : PPC970MP, altivec supported clock : 2500.000000MHz revision : 1.1 (pvr 0044 0101) processor : 3 cpu : PPC970MP, altivec supported clock : 2500.000000MHz revision : 1.1 (pvr 0044 0101) timebase : 33333333 platform : PowerMac model : PowerMac11,2 machine : PowerMac11,2 motherboard : PowerMac11,2 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh detected as : 337 (PowerMac G5 Dual Core) pmac flags : 00000000 L2 cache : 1024K unified pmac-generation : NewWorld enceladus$ enceladus$ head /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 8168256 kB MemFree: 7429632 kB MemAvailable: 7873856 kB Buffers: 40896 kB Cached: 428480 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 102528 kB Inactive: 429376 kB Active(anon): 4096 kB Inactive(anon): 64640 kB enceladus$ enceladus$ cat /etc/debian_version bullseye/sid enceladus$ enceladus$ cat /proc/version Linux version 5.9.0-genunix (root@enceladus) (gcc (Debian 10.2.0-13) 10.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.1) #1 SMP Wed Oct 14 06:17:00 GMT 2020 enceladus$ I build my own kernel on that thing all the time. It rips through the whole build process with 2800+ modules in about 90 minutes. enceladus$ find /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ -type f | wc -l 2866 However it draws 300 watts at power up and settles down to 200 watts just doing nothing much. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
