http://mirror.lemote.com/CPOS/ This system is a CentOS 7 for Power 8 。 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nuno Fernandes" npf-mlists@eurotux.com To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." centos-devel@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] c7-ppc64 (big endian) progress Date: 2015-07-22 04:48
Hello, I have a good knowledge of mock, building rpms and a Power8 box: [root@rhelbe ~]# lscpu Architecture: ppc64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Big Endian CPU(s): 16 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-15 Thread(s) per core: 4 Core(s) per socket: 1 Socket(s): 4 NUMA node(s): 2 Model: IBM,8284-22A L1d cache: 64K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 512K L3 cache: 8192K NUMA node0 CPU(s): NUMA node3 CPU(s): 0-15 [root@rhelbe ~]# uname -a Linux rhelbe 3.10.0-229.el7.ppc64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 18:40:45 EST 2015 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux Is there any way i can help building CentOS 7 PPC64? Best regards, Nuno Fernandes
Hello,
I'm more interested on using a centos brand linux. I would prefer to help creating such a distro than using one that i don't know how it's being made, mantained, monitored, etc.
If for some reason i start using your distribution and later on your company is bought and stops being mantained and shipping it i'm in the dark...
Is there a PPC64 Sig out there?
Best regards, Nuno Fernandes
On 28/07/15 14:21, Nuno Fernandes wrote:
Hello,
I'm more interested on using a centos brand linux. I would prefer to help creating such a distro than using one that i don't know how it's being made, mantained, monitored, etc.
If for some reason i start using your distribution and later on your company is bought and stops being mantained and shipping it i'm in the dark...
Is there a PPC64 Sig out there?
yes!
We are getting things together ( well, I just wrote up what should be an announcement to go out in the next few days ).
We've got a PoC done for both BE and LE ppc64 - the ppc multilib stuff needs some level of attention, but we will find out about that soon.
There are a few ways to get involved, either shadow the builds on your own hardware - or work through build fails in the central service, helping rectify things. You can also help with testing the distro ( including the installer ), and most importantly, you can help with docs around the project, the code, and how other people can get involved as well.
As a free win, it would be great to see a group of people help bridge the SIG content from x86 over to these arch's as well - but we are a few miles away from having a usable base first.
Regards,
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On 07/29/2015 12:16 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 28/07/15 14:21, Nuno Fernandes wrote:
Hello,
I'm more interested on using a centos brand linux. I would prefer to help creating such a distro than using one that i don't know how it's being made, mantained, monitored, etc.
If for some reason i start using your distribution and later on your company is bought and stops being mantained and shipping it i'm in the dark...
Is there a PPC64 Sig out there?
yes!
We are getting things together ( well, I just wrote up what should be an announcement to go out in the next few days ).
We've got a PoC done for both BE and LE ppc64 - the ppc multilib stuff needs some level of attention, but we will find out about that soon.
There are a few ways to get involved, either shadow the builds on your own hardware - or work through build fails in the central service, helping rectify things. You can also help with testing the distro ( including the installer ), and most importantly, you can help with docs around the project, the code, and how other people can get involved as well.
As a free win, it would be great to see a group of people help bridge the SIG content from x86 over to these arch's as well - but we are a few miles away from having a usable base first.
Is there a possibility to keep older hardware supported as well, maybe with some kind of "CentOS plus Kernel"?
RHEL 7 dropped support for Power6 and Power5, while Fedora still runs on them. Pretty decent hardware.
Could help on this, I got a bunch of Power 5 machines, even in 19" forma t.
Best,
Timo
On 29/07/15 11:02, Timo Schöler wrote:
Is there a possibility to keep older hardware supported as well, maybe with some kind of "CentOS plus Kernel"?
RHEL 7 dropped support for Power6 and Power5, while Fedora still runs on them. Pretty decent hardware.
Atleast the noarch rpms should be ok :) for the binary ones, I think we might need to rebuild a bunch ( if not all ? ), down to the mtune and optimisation flags being set in the rpm macros.
Something to trial and see how it goes, I dont think it would be a huge overhead once the initial bootstrap is done.
Regards,
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