On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 22:25:50 -0500 bill-auger <[email protected]> wrote:
> i dont think supporting older PPC CPUs is on the roadmap - > those would probably need to be separate ports; and the last > arch-like system (now defunct) was for PPC6 - there was a large > gap there that oaken-source and ebrasca had to leap over to get > to POWER9 > > the talos has dropped in price significantly recently though, > and it was just RYF-certified last week, so we really should do > our best to support it - i agree that one of us should probably > have access to one - as you pointed out, that may even be > necessary - in the worst case scenario, maybe we can entice > ebrasca to dedicate a piece of his for testing purposes, or for > building finicky packages I'd like to suggest to tell Raptor Computing Systems that you'd like to port Parabola GNU/Linux to PPC and make them aware of your plans; they usually support things like that strongly from what we've seen so far. They might even provide you with a machine that is either significantly reduced in price, free of charge or perhaps as a loaner. Vikings would be the last to not chime in with space and infrastructure to host such a machine with the potential outcome that Parabola will be ported. > > as will be the case for any small manufacturer of new > libre-design hardware, early adopters are the most important > factor for its success, and i think the only options now for > POWER9 are debian and opensuse - it will surely be a lot > of work; but parabola is well-tooled for the task of porting and > already has bootable prototypes for both POWER9 and RISC-V - i > dont think that any other FSDG distros are working on either of > those ports, or even proposing to do so; but at least one should > exist The distro choices for PPC are very limited at present, the more it would be welcomed to improve the situation from our POV. -- Best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Cordialement/Met vriendelijke groet The Vikings Team Web: https://www.vikings.net/ Store: https://store.vikings.net/ Phone: +49 69 247 54 91 0 Fax: +49 69 247 50 339 Follow us on Mastodon: https://social.vikings.net/@vikings Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vikingslibre Vikings GmbH Sauerackerweg 14, 60529 Frankfurt/Main, Germany Register Court: AG Frankfurt am Main Register No.: HR B 84497, CEO: Thomas Umbach Tax Office: Frankfurt am Main, VATIN: DE254094338 GPG key fingerprint: FD5E 2543 EE62 7395 00A6 9FBB F228 7A48 7CA2 3FA5
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