On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Anthony G. Basile <bluen...@gentoo.org>
wrote:
> On 8/12/15 3:47 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
>>
>> 4. I would like become a developer of porting gentoo on ppc64le. Anyone
>>> could help/mentor me to join this project ?
>>>
>> ideally someone on the ppc side would pick you up, but i think they've
>> been
>> a bit of a skeleton team of late. so if need be, i can help you here.
>>
>
> I can help out here.
See in my mail
>
>
> **Most importantly, Any Ideas/steps of how to porting gentoo on ppc64le
>>> architecture?**
>>>
>> do you have hardware ? then it's simply a matter of booting Gentoo in it
>> and
>> filing/fixing bugs :).
>> -mike
>>
> We should also start building stage3s.
>
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Appreciated your efforts and comments.
1. We've successfully compiled stage 3 for ppc64le. The stage 3 covers
most useful functionalities:
- GNU tool chains. e.g. automake, autoconf, gcc & glibc.
- Normally use Portage, e.g. emerge, ebuild & python
- Normally chroot in this stage 3.
- Not included linux kernel & bootloader yet.
2. We believe to make Gentoo support ppc64le, we still need to compile
kernel and bootloader
- Which version of kernel provided by Gentoo would you suggest us to use?
As to Ubuntu, there will be many patches to make the kernel
workable, so how to patch
our Gentoo kernel to make it work for ppc64le?
- Which version of grub suitable for ppc64le ? Is there any patches to
ppc64le grub ?
3. When the gentoo we make out workable on ppc64le, we would like to know
the process of
making it officially supported by Gentoo community
- For each arch, do we have a subteam to verify the packages? If so, how
to reach these guys?
- For hardware environment, does anyone have Power8 systems ?
-Leno Hou
