Hello Donald, I am happy to announce that we have managed to successfully bootstrap parabola for powerpc64le. I attached a screenshot of the first interactive session of the first successful virtualized boot.
It's of course going to be a lot of work to extend this preliminary port to a usable distribution - and we will need to talk about how this work is going to be organized - but at the moment the port is at least self-hosting, reasonably self-contained, follows the same packaging guidelines as mainline parabola, and was created entirely on parabola using only free software. I'll be back early next week with more information and a downloadable virtual machine image for everyone to take a look at. My internet connection at home is unfortunately too unreliable for uploading the package repositories and the VM image, but I wanted to keep my promise of delivering something this week ;) Best, Andreas On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 04:51:54PM -0400, Donald Robertson wrote: > Hello everyone, > > There's been some interest in having an endorsed distro with ppc64el > support for IBM Power systems, similar to what Debian makes available > <https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el>. My understanding is that currently > none of our endorsed distros have this available. So we're looking to > see if one would be a good candidate for adding support, or possibly if > there is a distro out there that currently supports it and would be a > good candidate for endorsement. If a distro was interested in adding > support, there might be a group that could help with that work. Thanks > for any help you all can provide. > -- > Donald R. Robertson, III, J.D. > Licensing & Compliance Manager > Free Software Foundation > 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor > Boston, MA 02110 > Phone +1-617-542-5942 > Fax +1-617-542-2652 ex. 56 > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ my GPG Public Key: https://files.grapentin.org/.gpg/public.key ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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