Re: [gentoo-powerpc] Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-09-25 Thread Luca Barbato 
On 24/09/15 14:23, Leno Hou wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Leno Hou  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

We do not have an IBM contact (that I know) otherwise I'd love to get 3
powerdev minimal paravirt enviroments to test BE, LE and Power7.

Anybody with ties with IBM willing to help? =)

lu

Re: [gentoo-powerpc] Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-12 Thread Luca Barbato 
On 12/08/15 11:46, Shuai Zhao wrote:
 2015-08-12 15:47 GMT+08:00 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org:
 
 On 12 Aug 2015 15:20, Leno Hou wrote:
 **Most importantly, Any Ideas/steps of how to  porting gentoo on  ppc64le
 architecture?**

 do you have hardware ?  then it's simply a matter of booting Gentoo in it
 and
 filing/fixing bugs :).
 -mike

 
 Yeah, we has several virtual machines of PPC64le.
 

Are they based on qemu or something completely different?

lu