Re: Compatible Debian PPC64 B.E for L.E servers

2020-10-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/26/20 5:30 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 05:04:48PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> I had to re-read this several times and just to be clear: You can still >> run big-endian code perfectly fine on POWER8 machines and newer (unless >> IBM removed support with

Re: Compatible Debian PPC64 B.E for L.E servers

2020-10-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 05:04:48PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I had to re-read this several times and just to be clear: You can still > run big-endian code perfectly fine on POWER8 machines and newer (unless > IBM removed support with POWER10). You can, but it seems very few people

Re: Compatible Debian PPC64 B.E for L.E servers

2020-10-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/26/20 4:55 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > And it seems power8+ machines really just run ppc64el because that is > what IBM wants people to run (apparently because converting the data from > big endian to little endian before passing it to an nvidia GPU that only > does little endian made a sig

Re: Compatible Debian PPC64 B.E for L.E servers

2020-10-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 03:30:05PM -0300, Alexandre Bencz wrote: > well... > > this is quite interesting, even for use on Power7 servers ... I have several > clients that use Debian on P7 and P6 so, having a compilation that uses > the latest CPU instructions, would be interesting Right, so

Re: Compatible Debian PPC64 B.E for L.E servers

2020-10-25 Thread Linux User #330250
On 25th of October 2020 Carlos Rodrigues wrote: Newer servers, such as Power8 and Power9 support BE operating systems, including Debian ... the problem is that Debian PPC64 is compiled to be compatible with older servers (power4 standard), it is possible to generate a release of Debian PPC64 BE,

Re: Compatible Debian PPC64 B.E for L.E servers

2020-10-25 Thread Alexandre Bencz
well... this is quite interesting, even for use on Power7 servers ... I have several clients that use Debian on P7 and P6 so, having a compilation that uses the latest CPU instructions, would be interesting Alexandre S. Bencz +55 {15} 991-707-384 On 25/10/2020 15:14, John Paul Adrian Gl

Re: Compatible Debian PPC64 B.E for L.E servers

2020-10-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Carlos! On 10/25/20 6:49 PM, Carlos Rodrigues wrote: > Newer servers, such as Power8 and Power9 support BE operating systems, > including Debian ... > the problem is that Debian PPC64 is compiled to be compatible with older > servers (power4 > standard), it is possible to generate a releas

Compatible Debian PPC64 B.E for L.E servers

2020-10-25 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
Newer servers, such as Power8 and Power9 support BE operating systems, including Debian ... the problem is that Debian PPC64 is compiled to be compatible with older servers (power4 standard), it is possible to generate a release of Debian PPC64 BE, using Power8 standards (I mean newer instructi