On 09/22/2014 10:24 AM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:57:44 -0300
Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes, ppc64el runs on POWER8 onwards with OpenFirmware based firmware.
I thought the base was Power7? At least my qemu-based ppc64le VM
declares itself as a Power7?
"Yes." It is possible to run ppc64el on POWER7 as guest [1] (only),
but that requires firmware that is not generally available.
That has been used for development, but is not supported [2].
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-ppc/2013-08/msg00047.html
[2]
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-2e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32/entry/just_the_faqs_about_little_endian?lang=en
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