[gentoo-powerpc] Re: osuosl openstack power8 powerpc64le for gentoo

[Leno Hou <lenohou@gmail.com>]

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On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 10:28 PM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@gentoo.org>
wrote:

> On 3/26/16 7:20 AM, Linda Jiang wrote:
> > This is our fresh stage3 or more precisely it more than a stage3 for
> there
> > are some
> > other packages like grub, vim, genkernel even an vmlinux(in /boot)
> inside.
> > So it looks
> > bigger than normal, but more comfort to work with. Hope it could help :)
>
> thanks Linda.
>
> @everyone else on the list, i've been moving slowly on this because of
> time constraints.  i hope in may-ish once the semester is over to
> provide a working ppc64le to the community.
>
>
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 10:28 PM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@gentoo.org>
 wrote:

> On 3/26/16 7:20 AM, Linda Jiang wrote:
> > This is our fresh stage3 or more precisely it more than a stage3 for
> there
> > are some
> > other packages like grub, vim, genkernel even an vmlinux(in /boot)
> inside.
> > So it looks
> > bigger than normal, but more comfort to work with. Hope it could help :)
>
> thanks Linda.
>
> @everyone else on the list, i've been moving slowly on this because of
> time constraints.  i hope in may-ish once the semester is over to
> provide a working ppc64le to the community.



Hi all,

    To speed up the progress of provide a working ppc64le to the Gentoo
Community.

    We're planning to make gentoo ppc64le to be merged in Q2 due to the
following reason.

1. We're successfully made gentoo stage3 and livecd for ppc64le platform,
please download in below
    [1]  stage3 for ppc64le
<https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8O8TRm4UoiqMC03cVd6NGdnbHc&usp=sharing>
 , *already done*
    [2]  livecd for ppc64le
<https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8O8TRm4UoiqMC03cVd6NGdnbHc&usp=sharing>,
ready for this Weekend( *April 22th*)
2. We've opened  bug#580512 <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580512> to
request and track some questions/problems related with ppc64le platform
3. We've opened github PRs#1304 <https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1304> to
merge the portage tree changes which is related to ppc64le platform
4. We've pushed the portage tree changes in github repo named linux-on-power
<https://github.com/linux-on-power/gentoo>

@Anthony, Could you help me to review and merge the patches ?

Thanks in advance and any comments would be appreciated.

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