On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 09:37:11AM +0200, KatolaZ wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 03:25:55AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > On 08/31/2018 03:03 PM, KatolaZ wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 07:09:36PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > > >> [email protected] wrote: > > >> > > >>> Debian supports POWER but why not devuan? > > >>> > > >>> I want a systemd free distro to run on a TALOS 2. > > >> > > >> My WAG (wild a**ed guess) is that among the fairly small pool of Devuan > > >> devs, there aren't enough (if any ?) with the right skills AND access to > > >> suitable hardware AND the time and "itch" to work on it. > > >> Given the relative availability/usage of the different platforms it > > >> makes sense to concentrate on Intel/AMD family, plus ARM, and only when > > >> they are "sorted" to more "minority" archs like Power. Being a long time > > >> Mac user, I've always had something of a soft spot for the Power > > >> architecture - from what I did know, it looked like a "cleaner" arch > > >> than Intel 586 and successors. > > >> > > > > > > Trying to provide support for ppc64 is part of the Devuan plans. It > > > seems that we have access to a ppc64 build host atm, but we haven't > > > started using it as yet. I guess we will get back to it soonish. Any > > > help in that direction would be appreciated. > > > > Excellent. > > > > IBM offers developers free POWER VPS's to experiment on. > > https://www-356.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHandler/stg_com_sys_power-development-platform > > > > I will also email you contacts for something much better and more easily > > obtainable. > > I guess we would prefer to have build hosts hosted by trusted people, > rather than a service owned by a third party. And this is for a bunch > of very good reasons that should be self-evident to a security-aware > person like you ;)
Might still be useful for debugging. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
