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Hi William welcome,
2 x PPC64 here, one is G5 quad and one is a A-eon Cyrus+ e5500 P5020 machine, Yes i can say for sure debian is really need to be fixed in e5500 because many software crash here and look like need the fpu emulation enabled in the kernel for run the desktop. Right now im running here with kernel 4.6 rc1 under mate 16.04 im founding less problems about compatibility compared with debian where iceweasell are crashing everytime if i open a video. I think many issue are gaven because debian have much more altivec optimized components.. but im sure in time everything will be better ;-) Luigi > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > From: william@wbonnet.net > Subject: PPC64 port status > Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:54:37 +0200 > > Hi all, > > I am currently working (office work) on a project using PPC64 based > boards, each board is running a NXP e5500 processor. We plan to use > Debian, and thus the PPC64 port. So, I have tested the version from > debian-ports, it is almost working, but it seems that packages have been > compiled with options which are not compatible with all the PPC64 CPUs, > especially not compatible with e5500. > > I have several questions : > > ./ First of all is it the good place to talk about PPC64 ? I have only > seen a PowerPC mailing list, thus I presume it is about all PowerPCs :) > > ./ Is there a defined "minimal" target for the PPC64 port ? I have > understood that VMX support is not enabled [1] (please tell me if i am > wrong). But VMX is not the only optional feature from PowerPC64 > standard, and some CPUs like e5500 do not implement some optional > opcodes that are used by packages currently available from the ports > archive. So i would like to know what is the target, and if it is > possible to consider supporting the "most generic PPC64 target", just > like it is done for x86 archs ? > > ./ I would like to know please if there are some active work on the > PowerPC64 ports ? If so I'd like to join the effort, and help either to > port, or tests packages on e5500 boards. I would appreciate to get in > touch with the PPC64 to know what kind of help is most needed, and > figure out if I can do something (i.e. do you need acces to a porterbox, > or whatever ?) > > And many more to come... > > Cheers, > W. > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/PPC64#Target > > -- > William http://www.wbonnet.net > > http://france.debian.net Association Debian France > http://www.opencsw.org Community SoftWare for Solaris > > |