On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 09:43:05AM +0100, Vikings GmbH wrote: > 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.
This would be an ideal outcome for us -- a Talos Server unit located in your shared hosting space. Thanks for the suggestion, I will write a mail to Raptor immediately to enquire about this. Thanks! -A -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ my GPG Public Key: https://files.grapentin.org/.gpg/public.key ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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