On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 01:21:26PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 11:30, Jim Prewett wrote: > > Hi, Does anyone know how well Debian plays with the IBM 970 BladeCenter? > > I've been told that SUSE is doing OK on it, and is being recommended by > > IBM, but that would mean running SUSE, eeew! ;) > > > > Any information anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. (any > > successes?) I may be purchasing one of these systems and I would *really* > > like to use Debian :) > > It mostly depends wether you want 32 or 64 bits environment. The debian > installer and kernels don't work on the js20, but you can have a working > debian 32 bits userland with a custom kernel on a js20 (even a 64 bits > kernel). > > The problem right now is, I _THINK_, that debian has no clue about biarch > setups (for mixes 32/64 bits environment)
I have been working on that. I believe that the biarch gcc compiler should be mostly ok (using gcc 3.4 packages from experiemental though), but wee also need a biarch capable glibc. I have not had the time to look at this more in detail, but i will try to have a look again this WE. Friendly, Sven Luther
