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