On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 3:40 PM, taii...@gmx.com <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: > I am of curious as to peoples experiences with OpenPOWER machines and gentoo > - is it as simple as using the ppc64 arch iso instead of x86_64? > If anyone uses it for a workstation, what apps do you have? is there > anything normal missing? (ie: that one would have on an x86_64 workstation) >
I haven't been able to use Gentoo directly, but I have used Linux on Power on GCC's servers. There's nothing terribly abnormal, though there's a lot of interesting FPU modes. > I noticed that gentoo only has big endian isos instead of little endian and > I am also wondering what this means for software availability as I have > never heard of endianness before a few months ago. > You should use ppc64le. This complicates things when compiling, and is a minor issue for some other compilers, who do not support multilib in a way that makes it possible to build a ppc64le toolchain from a ppc64 toolchain. You may need to set up tools on a computer of another architecture, or get prebuilt tools from GCC. > Info: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9 (POWER is now the only high performance > arch that is owner controlled now that AMD has its ME analog PSP) > http://raptorcs.com/ (The T2 is a modified "romulus" reference board made > available to the general public with libre firmware) > They are expensive, but one day, if the Lord decides to bless me, I may own one. Cheers, R0b0t1
