* Anton Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-03 23:21]: [...] > > Also, are you generally interested in helping with our PPC64 port? As > > I see it, this needs to be done to get the PPC64 port started: > > Sure Im willing to help. > > > - get a working 32bit kernel for POWER3 and POWER4 > > - get 64bit toolchain support (GCC, etc). Guido Guenther > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on this for MIPS64, so there's > > some effort to be shared. Guido knows PPC as well, but > > doesn't have the time to do it. > > - get a working 64bit kernel > > - add a 64 bit support to glibc, I guess. > > An overview of the current status: > > - 64bit 2.6 (straight from Linus) should compile and boot on G5, pseries > and iseries (there is one iseries and one pseries driver that is on > its way into the kernel, hopefully in the next week or so). (Note > while 32bit will boot on power3 and g5, its unlikely to work on POWER4 > eg 615). > > - binutils works with 64bit, in fact the current 32bit binutils in > debian has 64bit support enabled (I requested that a while ago). > > - gcc-3.3 requires patches. This is the sticking point at the moment. > The current repository for this is the SUSE 3.3 hammer branch, it > includes all the required 64bit support as well. Does debian have a > x86-64 toolchain? If so its probably the hammer branch and we can > share with those packages. If not we can handle it a number of ways > (eg patch against 3.3 mainline). > > - My understanding is gcc-3.4 will have all the necessary patches. > > - glibc works with 64bit > > On a related topic, 32bit ppc currently has no NPTL libc build because > some of the changes did not make it into gcc-3.3. Again the gcc-3.3 > hammer branch or gcc-3.4 have the bits. I can understand the guys not > wanting to upset too much before the next release but we need to get > NPTL support in or we will be behind x64, x86-64, s390 and ia64. The > suggestion was to do some experimental gcc-3.3-hammer + libc6-nptl > packages. Maybe this could tie in with our ppc64 toolchains. > > Other than that, we need to iron out the installer issues: > > - making bootable cdroms. I can help with this, there is a bit of black > magic to making pseries bootable cds. G5 bootable should just work > > - lots of small installer bugs, like no fdisk (only the pmac-fdisk)
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