*Leno Hou*
E-mail : [email protected]
Phone : 185-0093-5995
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Leno Hou <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This is a great pleasure to announce that we've made ppc64le stage 3.
>
> 1. We've successfully compiled stage 3 for ppc64le. The stage 3 covers
> most useful functionalities:
>
> - GNU tool chains. e.g. automake, autoconf, gcc & glibc.
> - Normally use Portage, e.g. emerge, ebuild & python
> - Normally chroot in this stage 3.
> - Not included linux kernel & bootloader yet.
>
> 2. We believe to make Gentoo support ppc64le, we still need to compile
> kernel and bootloader
>
> - Which version of kernel provided by Gentoo would you suggest us to
> use?
>
> As to Ubuntu, there will be many patches to make the kernel
> workable, so how to patch
> our Gentoo kernel to make it work for ppc64le?
>
> - Which version of grub suitable for ppc64le ? Is there any patches
> to ppc64le grub ?
>
> When I building grub, it happens
https://bpaste.net/show/732172bfe927 .
CC: grub-dev community , could you give me a hand with ppc64le
grub ?
Or the latest grub merged ppc64le patches ?
> 3. When the gentoo we make out workable on ppc64le, we would like to know
> the process of
> making it officially supported by Gentoo community
>
> - For each arch, do we have a subteam to verify the packages? If so,
> how to reach these guys?
>
> ppc64le are inherit from ppc64 profile. Is that say we should
push this portage contains ppc64le
profile. And provides this stage 3 made by catalyst ?
What my mean is, I known arm64 ( aarch64 ?) was merged to
portage, Could you let me know the
process of ppc64le as same as arm64 supported by Gentoo community
?
>
> - For hardware environment, does anyone have Power8 systems ?
>
> If someone have POWER8 OR POWER 7 systems, it would be nice If
you'll join this project.
-Leno Hou
>
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