On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 04:15:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello all, > > Thanks to the great job of Jeff Bailey and Matthias Klose, who provided a set > of gcc-3.4/glibc-2.3.5 based biarch toolchain, i have managed to build a first > ppc64 kernel package, which is available at : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/ppc64 > > Altough obviously untested, as i don't have a ppc64 box, it should install > over a normal sarge system, and run on all ppc64 boxes, from power3 RS6K ones > to newer iseries, passing by all apple G5 macs, except for the older > pre-power5 iseries. It is built without power4 optimization and in SMP mode > only for now, since i want to get this flavour tested and investigated before > multiplicating the different kernel images. > > This kernel is *not* yet for production, since at least it will want a 64bit > compiled procutils, to take care of 64bit process ids in /proc. > > Future plans include integrating these kernels in etch, once the biarch > toolchain makes it to it, and working on a ppc64 d-i, but first please test > this kernel on as much as possible 64bit powerpc machines, and provide > feedback to me.
So, none of you G5 powermac owners is willing to test this 64bit kernel, after all the time folk have been requesting it ? I have had only two reports so far, one successful on a : pSeries 630, model 7028-6E4 and one failed on a : POWER5 IBM iSeries (i5) model 9406-520 (probably due to missing LPAR support patches). In any case, it should work just fine on G5 powermacs. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
