Re: Adding ppc64el support in debian-cd

2014-10-03 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 01:00:04AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 12:33:01AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Hi Steve, On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:02:34AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:47:10PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: The tarball should be

Re: Adding ppc64el support in debian-cd

2014-10-02 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi Steve, On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:02:34AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:47:10PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: The tarball should be decompressed in the root of the CD-ROM, while the kernel and initrd should be placed in the /install directory. The ISO image

Re: Adding ppc64el support in debian-cd

2014-10-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 12:33:01AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Hi Steve, On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:02:34AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:47:10PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: The tarball should be decompressed in the root of the CD-ROM, while the kernel and initrd

Re: Adding ppc64el support in debian-cd

2014-09-27 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:47:10PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 02:09:29PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:57:44AM -0300, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: On 09/22/2014 12:00 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 06:19:43PM

Re: Adding ppc64el support in debian-cd

2014-09-24 Thread Luigi Burdo
I was thinking why not add the KVM PPC support to into the debian PPC distro Christian Xeno74 was succes have it working on X1000 Semi 64 dual core. will be wonderful have it simple installed for G4 and G5 machine too Luigi On 22/09/14 15:24, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2014

Re: Adding ppc64el support in debian-cd

2014-09-22 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
On 09/22/2014 12:00 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 06:19:43PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: I'm adding support for new architectures at the moment. powerpc is one of the most awkward existing arches to add boot support for at the moment, due to the mess of older machines.

Re: Adding ppc64el support in debian-cd

2014-09-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:57:44AM -0300, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: On 09/22/2014 12:00 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 06:19:43PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: I'm adding support for new architectures at the moment. powerpc is one of the most awkward existing arches to

Re: Adding ppc64el support in debian-cd

2014-09-22 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:57:44 -0300 Mauricio Faria de Oliveira mauri...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: Yes, ppc64el runs on POWER8 onwards with OpenFirmware based firmware. I thought the base was Power7? At least my qemu-based ppc64le VM declares itself as a Power7? Konstantinos -- To

Re: Adding ppc64el support in debian-cd

2014-09-22 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
On 09/22/2014 10:24 AM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:57:44 -0300 Mauricio Faria de Oliveira mauri...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: Yes, ppc64el runs on POWER8 onwards with OpenFirmware based firmware. I thought the base was Power7? At least my qemu-based ppc64le VM

Re: Adding ppc64el support in debian-cd

2014-09-22 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 02:09:29PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:57:44AM -0300, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: On 09/22/2014 12:00 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 06:19:43PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: I'm adding support for new architectures

Adding ppc64el support in debian-cd

2014-09-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi folks, I'm adding support for new architectures at the moment. powerpc is one of the most awkward existing arches to add boot support for at the moment, due to the mess of older machines. I'm hoping that ppc64el is better, but I don't have much information to go on. What should we be doing to

Re: Adding ppc64el support in debian-cd

2014-09-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 06:19:43PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: I'm adding support for new architectures at the moment. powerpc is one of the most awkward existing arches to add boot support for at the moment, due to the mess of older machines. I'm hoping that ppc64el is better, but I don't