On 08/31/2018 03:03 PM, KatolaZ wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 07:09:36PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: >> taii...@gmx.com wrote: >> >>> Debian supports POWER but why not devuan? >>> >>> I want a systemd free distro to run on a TALOS 2. >> >> My WAG (wild a**ed guess) is that among the fairly small pool of Devuan >> devs, there aren't enough (if any ?) with the right skills AND access to >> suitable hardware AND the time and "itch" to work on it. >> Given the relative availability/usage of the different platforms it makes >> sense to concentrate on Intel/AMD family, plus ARM, and only when they are >> "sorted" to more "minority" archs like Power. Being a long time Mac user, >> I've always had something of a soft spot for the Power architecture - from >> what I did know, it looked like a "cleaner" arch than Intel 586 and >> successors. >> > > Trying to provide support for ppc64 is part of the Devuan plans. It > seems that we have access to a ppc64 build host atm, but we haven't > started using it as yet. I guess we will get back to it soonish. Any > help in that direction would be appreciated.
Excellent. IBM offers developers free POWER VPS's to experiment on. https://www-356.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHandler/stg_com_sys_power-development-platform I will also email you contacts for something much better and more easily obtainable. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
