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* [gentoo-powerpc] Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments
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@ 2015-09-25  2:32 99%                   ` Leno Hou
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From: Leno Hou @ 2015-09-25  2:32 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Leno Hou, gentoo-dev, gentoo-powerpc, Anthony G. Basile

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On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> 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,
you can install Ubuntu or RedHat ( integrated with KVM by default) on
POWER7.



> i don't think any Gentoo dev has access to ppc64le hardware,
> so we'd rely on ibm to fix bugs and such.
>

As above, we can boot ppc64le by KVM on POWER7. Is not mean that we can
booting/filing/fixing by KVM? If so, i'll try to get some KVM virtual
machines :-)


-mike
>

-Leno Hou

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