Void Linux goes POWER9
A nice commit landed in Void Linux: 64-bit Power ISA support including big and little endian. Although you'll have to build it yourself and it looks like more work is needed for other packages, eventually the resulting binaries should boot on any Talos II system and the musl support is welcome for those who prefer to avoid issues with non-64-bit long double.
Related is work to get old-school 32-bit PowerPC working, so your beloved Power Mac can play too.
Many thanks for keeping us updated on Power9 news! I am eagerly awaiting my BlackBird board :=)
ReplyDeleteI'm too :-)
DeleteOne question, does anybody know why I only can post with my Blogger account on iPad, but not with my Mac? Both Safari, both logged into Google ...
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ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/RaptorCompSys/status/1083508905307705350
Just found this post. I have an entire staging fork running, so no building necessary: https://void-ppc64.octaforge.org/ I'm already running it as a main OS myself, it boots, has a graphical environment, multiple DEs, and ~3500 software packages prebuilt. That is, at least for glibc little endian. For musl, only the base system and a bunch of extras (e.g. language toolchains like Rust and Go and Node) are being built.
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DeleteAlso, we recently merged the initial ppc32 work, but it only includes a cross-compiling toolchain and common infra updates for now. I'm not doing that one, so I have no idea how long it'll take to get it working properly (depends on how fast the guy is with pull requests and how many things arise during review), the ppc64 project has already merged vast majority of the packaging updates, and more are coming.
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