Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2014-03-28 Thread Breno Leitao
Back to this email, I finally got the binaries public, and we are tracking this port on following wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el On 09/21/2013 02:42 PM, Breno Leitao wrote: > Hi, > > Now that PowerPC was announced to have Little Endian support, I'd like to > enable > it on Debian,

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:08:48AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > Ergo, there hasn't been sufficient support for least significant byte > first mode to demonstrate that the CPU can actually do it. Makes more > sense when I think about it that way. Certainly running Linux this way is pretty new and unpr

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-23 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 06:08:12PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> I suppose I'm not really one privileged to express these reactions, >> but I tend to be a loose cannon sometimes. >> >> ??? >> >> (Checking my calendar. Nope, I haven't suddenl

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-23 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi Hiroyuki, On 09/22/2013 01:05 AM, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote: >> I have been working internally at IBM on a Debian rootfs that runs on this >> architecture. As a plan, I am looking, in general, to have this architecture >> included on sid, first, and then being moving towards stable. > > I think

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-23 Thread Breno Leitao
On 09/23/2013 11:43 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 06:08:12PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> I suppose I'm not really one privileged to express these reactions, but I >> tend to be a loose cannon sometimes. >> >> ??? >> >> (Checking my calendar. Nope, I haven't suddenly slipped

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-23 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 23, 2013, at 7:43 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Well you could always complain about IBM choosing the x86 in the first > place, or complain that people bought IBM's machines in the first place > at a time when lots of other machines were using m68k chips instead. It's somewhat ironic that

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 08:28:43AM -0700, Gary Driggs wrote: > It's somewhat ironic that they're the last big fab & server vendor > left making PPC gear. Even Freescale seems focused on ARM these > days... No, freescale is very much focused on powerpc, they are just doing some arm as well since th

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 06:08:12PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > I suppose I'm not really one privileged to express these reactions, > but I tend to be a loose cannon sometimes. > > ??? > > (Checking my calendar. Nope, I haven't suddenly slipped back to the > early 1990s.) > > (Still puzzled.) Well

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-22 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Sun, 2013-09-22 13:17:02 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:04:42PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: > > On 09/21/2013 03:22 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > What versions of the Linux kernel, gcc, glibc are needed? > > Probably the yet-to-GA kernel, gcc and glibc. Patches starte

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-22 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:04:42PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: > On 09/21/2013 03:22 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > > Can you please describe the advantages of this new port? > This is going to be part of the OpenPower consortium. This article[1] > describe a > little bit about the about the architectu

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-22 Thread Joel Rees
I suppose I'm not really one privileged to express these reactions, but I tend to be a loose cannon sometimes. On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Breno Leitao wrote: > Hi, > > Now that PowerPC was announced to have Little Endian support, I'd like to > enable > it on Debian, as a ppc64el architectu

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-21 Thread Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Hi, Breno Breno Leitao wrote: > Hi, > > Now that PowerPC was announced to have Little Endian support, I'd like to > enable > it on Debian, as a ppc64el architecture. In the point of making architecture dependence 10890 source packages, which Debian has already had, correspond to any architectu

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-21 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi Bastian, On 09/21/2013 03:22 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > Can you please describe the advantages of this new port? This is going to be part of the OpenPower consortium. This article[1] describe a little bit about the about the architecture. > What versions of the Linux kernel, gcc, glibc are ne

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-21 Thread Breno Leitao
On 09/21/2013 03:54 PM, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Sat, 2013-09-21 14:42:53 -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: >> Now that PowerPC was announced to have Little Endian support, I'd like to >> enable >> it on Debian, as a ppc64el architecture. >> >> I have been working internally at IBM on a Debian ro

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-21 Thread Breno Leitao
On 09/21/2013 03:22 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 02:42:53PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: >> Now that PowerPC was announced to have Little Endian support, I'd like to >> enable >> it on Debian, as a ppc64el architecture. > > Can you please describe the advantages of this new po

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-21 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Sat, 2013-09-21 14:42:53 -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: > Now that PowerPC was announced to have Little Endian support, I'd like to > enable > it on Debian, as a ppc64el architecture. > > I have been working internally at IBM on a Debian rootfs that runs on this > architecture. As a plan, I am lo

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-21 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 02:42:53PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: > Now that PowerPC was announced to have Little Endian support, I'd like to > enable > it on Debian, as a ppc64el architecture. Can you please describe the advantages of this new port? What versions of the Linux kernel, gcc, glibc are

New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-21 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi, Now that PowerPC was announced to have Little Endian support, I'd like to enable it on Debian, as a ppc64el architecture. I have been working internally at IBM on a Debian rootfs that runs on this architecture. As a plan, I am looking, in general, to have this architecture included on sid, fi