On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:57:44AM -0300, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: >On 09/22/2014 12:00 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >>On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 06:19:43PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>>I'm adding support for new architectures at the moment. powerpc is one >>>of the most awkward existing arches to add boot support for at the >>>moment, due to the mess of older machines. I'm hoping that ppc64el is >>>better, but I don't have much information to go on. What should we be >>>doing to make bootable CD/DVD/USB images for ppc64el, please? > >Aurelien and Paulo know more about the bootable status/steps than me. > >I believe that w/ the grub2 and klibc uploads from this last weekend, >it's almost there. There's powerpc-utils & util-linux coming in from >DELAYED in 2 days & 5 days.
OK, cool. >>I thought only power8 machines were able to run ppc64el so far, and >>those would be openfirmware I imagine (every other IBM power machine I >>have worked with was). > >Yes, ppc64el runs on POWER8 onwards with OpenFirmware based firmware. Right. I'll start working based on that shortly. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
