Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-11-23 Thread Richard Yao
On 10/21/2015 04:55 AM, Kevin Zhao wrote: > Hi Guys, We have finish compiling stage3 for ppc64 (little-endian).Here is > the link: > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2k84p6709AyTFlwLUF1WjlxUk0/view?usp=sharing Awesome! > Now we are going to build LiveCD using stage3. Could you help to give

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-10-21 Thread Kevin Zhao
Hi Guys, We have finish compiling stage3 for ppc64 (little-endian).Here is the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2k84p6709AyTFlwLUF1WjlxUk0/view?usp=sharing Now we are going to build LiveCD using stage3. Could you help to give some demo or a guide for building LiveCD? That will help we a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-09-26 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 9/24/15 8:23 AM, Leno Hou wrote: Again, please apply POWER8 Systems and join our work :-) [1]: https://www.runabove.com/instances/ibm-power8.xml [2]: https://ptopenlab.com/cloudlabconsole/#/ [3]: http://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/request_hosting

Re: [gentoo-powerpc] Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-09-25 Thread Luca Barbato
On 24/09/15 14:23, Leno Hou wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Leno Hou wrote: > >> >> 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-09-25 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 9/25/15 6:59 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: On 9/25/15 5:09 AM, Leno Hou wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: On 9/25/15 1:05 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On 25 Sep 2015 10:32, Leno Hou wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On 14 Aug 20

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-09-25 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 9/25/15 5:09 AM, Leno Hou wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: On 9/25/15 1:05 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On 25 Sep 2015 10:32, Leno Hou wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On 14 Aug 2015 15:52, Leno Hou wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 20

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-09-25 Thread Leno Hou
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 9/25/15 1:05 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> On 25 Sep 2015 10:32, Leno Hou wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> On 14 Aug 2015 15:52, Leno Hou wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:47 PM

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-09-25 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 9/25/15 1:05 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On 25 Sep 2015 10:32, Leno Hou wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On 14 Aug 2015 15:52, Leno Hou wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On 12 Aug 2015 15:20, Leno Hou wrote: **Most importantly, Any I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-09-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 25 Sep 2015 10:32, Leno Hou wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On 14 Aug 2015 15:52, Leno Hou wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > On 12 Aug 2015 15:20, Leno Hou wrote: > > > > > **Most importantly, Any Ideas/steps of how t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-09-24 Thread Leno Hou
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 14 Aug 2015 15:52, Leno Hou wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On 12 Aug 2015 15:20, Leno Hou wrote: > > > > **Most importantly, Any Ideas/steps of how to porting gentoo on > ppc64le > > > > archite

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-09-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 14 Aug 2015 15:52, Leno Hou wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On 12 Aug 2015 15:20, Leno Hou wrote: > > > **Most importantly, Any Ideas/steps of how to porting gentoo on ppc64le > > > architecture?** > > > > do you have hardware ? then it's simply a matter of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-09-24 Thread Leno Hou
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Leno Hou wrote: > > 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-09-17 Thread Leno Hou
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Anthony G. Basile 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 t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-09-16 Thread Leno Hou
*Leno Hou* E-mail : leno...@gmail.com Phone : 185-0093-5995 On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Leno Hou wrote: > > This is a great pleasure to announce that we've made ppc64le stage 3. > > 1. We've successfully compiled stage 3 for ppc64le. The stage 3 covers > most useful functionalities: > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-09-13 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Leno Hou wrote: > Which version of grub suitable for ppc64le ? Is there any patches to > ppc64le grub ? There appears to be at least partial support on the master branch upstream. Also, take a look at the grub-devel mailing list archives; there have been several

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-09-11 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/09/15 08:01 AM, Leno Hou wrote: > 2. We believe to make Gentoo support ppc64le, we still need to > compile kernel and bootloader ...usually a gentoo installation requires you to build the kernel and bootloader yourself, inside of the chroot.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-09-11 Thread Leno Hou
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Anthony G. Basile 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 t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-14 Thread Leno Hou
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 12 Aug 2015 15:20, Leno Hou wrote: > > 2. How to control endian difference via profiles ? i.e. *How to get > > ppc64le as a full stage/profile along side ppc64* ? > > Could you give me in detail ? > > you probably want to create a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 13 Aug 2015 07:58, 姜渠 wrote: > 2015-08-12 15:47 GMT+08:00 Mike Frysinger: > > On 12 Aug 2015 15:20, Leno Hou wrote: > > >> 2. How to control endian difference via profiles ? i.e. *How to get > > >> ppc64le as a full stage/profile along side ppc64* ? > > >> Could you give me in detail ? >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-12 Thread 姜渠
2015-08-12 15:47 GMT+08:00 Mike Frysinger : > On 12 Aug 2015 15:20, Leno Hou wrote: > >> 2. How to control endian difference via profiles ? i.e. *How to get > >> ppc64le as a full stage/profile along side ppc64* ? > >> Could you give me in detail ? > > >you probably want to create a new pro

Re: [gentoo-powerpc] Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-12 Thread Luca Barbato
On 12/08/15 11:46, Shuai Zhao wrote: > 2015-08-12 15:47 GMT+08:00 Mike Frysinger : > >> On 12 Aug 2015 15:20, Leno Hou wrote: >>> **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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-12 Thread Shuai Zhao
2015-08-12 15:47 GMT+08:00 Mike Frysinger : > On 12 Aug 2015 15:20, Leno Hou wrote: > > **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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-12 Thread Anthony G. Basile
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 he

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 12 Aug 2015 15:20, Leno Hou wrote: > 2. How to control endian difference via profiles ? i.e. *How to get > ppc64le as a full stage/profile along side ppc64* ? > Could you give me in detail ? you probably want to create a new profile dir: profiles/arch/powerpc/ppc64/little-endian/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-12 Thread Leno Hou
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 11 Aug 2015 10:45, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > > On 8/11/15 10:33 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > > On 11/08/15 06:11 AM, Leno Hou wrote: > > >> I think ppc64le would become popular, > > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ppc64. > > >> > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 11 Aug 2015 10:49, James Le Cuirot wrote: > If ppc64le does become popular then I would suggest that we drop 32-bit > ppc first. Others may disagree though. :) ppc isn't being dropped, and ppc64le is entirely orthogonal to support for it -mike signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 11 Aug 2015 10:45, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 8/11/15 10:33 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > On 11/08/15 06:11 AM, Leno Hou wrote: > >> I think ppc64le would become popular, > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ppc64. > >> > >> 1. enable porting x86 Linux based application with minimal effort. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-11 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 8/11/15 10:33 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/08/15 06:11 AM, Leno Hou wrote: I think ppc64le would become popular, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ppc64. 1. enable porting x86 Linux based application with minimal effort. 2. Some PowerPC use

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-11 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:33:26 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 11/08/15 06:11 AM, Leno Hou wrote: > > I think ppc64le would become popular, > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ppc64. > > > > 1. enable porting x86 Linux based application with minimal effort. > > 2. Some PowerPC user, little endia

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-11 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/08/15 06:11 AM, Leno Hou wrote: > I think ppc64le would become popular, > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ppc64. > > 1. enable porting x86 Linux based application with minimal effort. > 2. Some PowerPC user, little endian apparently feels cheap

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-11 Thread Leno Hou
I think ppc64le would become popular, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ppc64. 1. enable porting x86 Linux based application with minimal effort. 2. Some PowerPC user, little endian apparently feels cheap, wrong, and PCish. 3. Other distrbutions like Ubuntu, Redhat and SUSE already support little end

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-11 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 17:22:21 +0800 Leno Hou wrote: > Please let me know forward/steps to port gentoo on ppc64le. I'm not on the ppc team but I do some ppc(64) testing for Java packages. Although these are relatively well-maintained keywords overall, I think the team would struggle to cope with a

[gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-11 Thread Leno Hou
Greetings ! Any Ideas/steps of how to porting gentoo on ppc64le architecture? Is it that we should add 'ppc64le' keyword to portage ? As some of you might know, Ubuntu has been introduced in support of ppc64le. ! It's just as it sounds ppc64( 6