On 24/09/15 14:23, Leno Hou wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Leno Hou <leno...@gmail.com> 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
