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

2015-09-25 Thread Anthony G. Basile 

On 9/25/15 5:09 AM, Leno Hou wrote:

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Anthony G. Basile 
wrote:


On 9/25/15 1:05 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:


On 25 Sep 2015 10:32, Leno Hou wrote:


On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:


On 14 Aug 2015 15:52, Leno Hou wrote:


On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:


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 :).


YES. We have KVM virtual machine of ppc64le.  Can we
booting/filing/fixing by KVM ?


KVM is fine.  i'm assuming you can't boot a ppc64le vm when the host is
ppc64be ?


We can boot ppc64le by KVM on POWER7  (abbrev. PowerKVM)
and KVM on Power7 is big endian. If you have real POWER7 hardware,


we have a Gentoo box running on a POWER7 from IBM:
 IBM,8231-E2B POWER7 32 x 3.5GHz

it has KVM enabled in it.  so i guess we should be able to start a LE
instance in KVM there.

you can install Ubuntu or RedHat ( integrated with KVM by default) on

POWER7.


are you really making this suggestion on a Gentoo list ? ;)
booting other distros isn't generally interesting to us.
don't you already have a Gentoo instance booting ?
-mike


@Leno, can you give me a url where i can download the stage3 and i'll try
to set up a development environment on our power7.

--
Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.


Download ppc64le seed stage3 here. http://pan.baidu.com/s/1uiVtc

-Leno Hou

baidu is a terrible site.  it keeps failing.  is there another site you 
can use?


--
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org
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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-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-09-25 Thread Anthony G. Basile 

On 9/25/15 6:59 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:

On 9/25/15 5:09 AM, Leno Hou wrote:

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Anthony G. Basile 
wrote:


On 9/25/15 1:05 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:


On 25 Sep 2015 10:32, Leno Hou wrote:


On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:


On 14 Aug 2015 15:52, Leno Hou wrote:


On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:


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 :).


YES. We have KVM virtual machine of ppc64le.  Can we
booting/filing/fixing by KVM ?

KVM is fine.  i'm assuming you can't boot a ppc64le vm when the 
host is

ppc64be ?


We can boot ppc64le by KVM on POWER7  (abbrev. PowerKVM)
and KVM on Power7 is big endian. If you have real POWER7 hardware,


we have a Gentoo box running on a POWER7 from IBM:
 IBM,8231-E2B POWER7 32 x 3.5GHz

it has KVM enabled in it.  so i guess we should be able to start a LE
instance in KVM there.

you can install Ubuntu or RedHat ( integrated with KVM by default) on

POWER7.


are you really making this suggestion on a Gentoo list ? ;)
booting other distros isn't generally interesting to us.
don't you already have a Gentoo instance booting ?
-mike

@Leno, can you give me a url where i can download the stage3 and 
i'll try

to set up a development environment on our power7.

--
Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.


Download ppc64le seed stage3 here. http://pan.baidu.com/s/1uiVtc

-Leno Hou

baidu is a terrible site.  it keeps failing.  is there another site 
you can use?



it finally downloaded

--
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-09-25 Thread Anthony G. Basile 

On 9/25/15 1:05 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:

On 25 Sep 2015 10:32, Leno Hou wrote:

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:

On 14 Aug 2015 15:52, Leno Hou wrote:

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:

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 :).

YES. We have KVM virtual machine of ppc64le.  Can we
booting/filing/fixing by KVM ?

KVM is fine.  i'm assuming you can't boot a ppc64le vm when the host is
ppc64be ?

We can boot ppc64le by KVM on POWER7  (abbrev. PowerKVM)
and KVM on Power7 is big endian. If you have real POWER7 hardware,

we have a Gentoo box running on a POWER7 from IBM:
IBM,8231-E2B POWER7 32 x 3.5GHz

it has KVM enabled in it.  so i guess we should be able to start a LE
instance in KVM there.


you can install Ubuntu or RedHat ( integrated with KVM by default) on
POWER7.

are you really making this suggestion on a Gentoo list ? ;)
booting other distros isn't generally interesting to us.
don't you already have a Gentoo instance booting ?
-mike


@Leno, can you give me a url where i can download the stage3 and i'll 
try to set up a development environment on our power7.


--
Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
E-Mail: bluen...@gentoo.org
GnuPG FP  : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB  DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA
GnuPG ID  : F52D4BBA

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

2015-09-25 Thread Leno Hou 
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Anthony G. Basile 
wrote:

> On 9/25/15 1:05 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
>> On 25 Sep 2015 10:32, Leno Hou wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>>
 On 14 Aug 2015 15:52, Leno Hou wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
>> 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 :).
>>
> YES. We have KVM virtual machine of ppc64le.  Can we
> booting/filing/fixing by KVM ?
>
 KVM is fine.  i'm assuming you can't boot a ppc64le vm when the host is
 ppc64be ?

>>> We can boot ppc64le by KVM on POWER7  (abbrev. PowerKVM)
>>> and KVM on Power7 is big endian. If you have real POWER7 hardware,
>>>
>> we have a Gentoo box running on a POWER7 from IBM:
>> IBM,8231-E2B POWER7 32 x 3.5GHz
>>
>> it has KVM enabled in it.  so i guess we should be able to start a LE
>> instance in KVM there.
>>
>> you can install Ubuntu or RedHat ( integrated with KVM by default) on
>>> POWER7.
>>>
>> are you really making this suggestion on a Gentoo list ? ;)
>> booting other distros isn't generally interesting to us.
>> don't you already have a Gentoo instance booting ?
>> -mike
>>
>
> @Leno, can you give me a url where i can download the stage3 and i'll try
> to set up a development environment on our power7.
>
> --
> Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
>

Download ppc64le seed stage3 here. http://pan.baidu.com/s/1uiVtc

-Leno Hou