Troy, My POWER8 is actually a QEMU emulator (same goes for my AARCH64).
However, the real thing (with 2sockets * 10cores * 8threads) exists in the GCC compile farm as gcc112. It is my understanding that with IBMs hypervisor one can run both LE and BE partitions simultaneously. So, probably no reloading of firmware is involved. -Paul On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Troy Benjegerdes <ho...@hozed.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 02:19:07PM -0700, Paul Hargrove wrote: > > I had an opportunity to try the 1.8.5rc2 tarball on a little-endian > POWER8 > > (aka ppc64el or powerpc64le). > > The good news is that things "just worked" as they did when I tried ARMv8 > > (aka aarch64). > > > > This is a little off-topic, but where do I buy one of these beasts, and > can I at least load new firmware to put it back in proper ppc64 mode? ;) > > ttile leaidnop npreww ,c taht siw sihdlromoc gni\n?ot > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' > ho...@hozed.org > 7 elements earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soul > grid.coop > > Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, > nor try buy a hacker who makes money by the megahash > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > Subscription: http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > Link to this post: > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2015/04/17364.php > -- Paul H. Hargrove phhargr...@lbl.gov Computer Languages & Systems Software (CLaSS) Group Computer Science Department Tel: +1-510-495-2352 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Fax: +1-510-486-6900
