On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Leno Hou <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
Upstream's 4.2.1 is OK :-)
I've compiled sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.2.1 on Ubuntu and
successfully booted Ubuntu as following.
root@ppc64le:~# uname -a
Linux ppc64le 4.2.1-gentoo #1 SMP Wed Sep 23 19:28:17 PDT 2015
ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
> - Which version of grub suitable for ppc64le ? Is there any patches
> to ppc64le grub ?
>
> 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?
> - For hardware environment, does anyone have Power8 systems ?
>
> Again, please apply POWER8 Systems and join our work :-)
[1]: https://www.runabove.com/instances/ibm-power8.xml
[2]: https://ptopenlab.com/cloudlabconsole/#/
[3]: http://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/request_hosting
> -Leno Hou
>
