[ale] Linux on PPC

Jeff Hubbs jhubbslist at att.net
Sat Jun 7 17:07:12 EDT 2014


It's going to be mostly limited by how fast you can type until you want, 
say, Xorg.  That first kernel compile might take a while.

On 6/7/14, 11:08 AM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> Never done Gentoo even on x86. How long will take on 400 Mhz PPC you 
> think ?
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     You verbed a noun. Is that allowed?
>
>     On Jun 6, 2014 6:22 PM, "Jeff Hubbs" <jhubbslist at att.net
>     <mailto:jhubbslist at att.net>> wrote:
>
>         Not an issue with Gentoo.  From
>         http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml?full=1#book_part1:
>
>         *Apple NewWorld Machines* 	Power/PowerPC microprocessors (G3,
>         G4, G5) such as iMac, eMac, iBook PowerBook, Xserver, PowerMac
>         *Apple OldWorld machines* 	Apple Machines with an Open
>         Firmware revision less than 3, such as the Beige G3s, PCI
>         PowerMacs and PCI PowerBooks. PCI-based Apple Clones should
>         also be supported.
>         *Genesi* 	Pegasos I/II, Open Desktop Workstation, Efika
>         *IBM* 	RS/6000, iSeries, pSeries
>         *Memory* 	At least 64 MB
>         *Diskspace* 	1.5 GB (excluding swap space)
>         *Swap space* 	At least 256 MB
>
>
>         It's really nice to be able to take a non-Intel machine that'd
>         be a boat anchor to most and make it almost as useful as
>         x86/x86_64 (within reason, i.e. accelerated video).  I've
>         Gentooed a couple of Suns in the past; solid as a rock.
>
>         On 6/6/14, 12:41 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>         On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Michael H. Warfield
>>         <mhw at wittsend.com <mailto:mhw at wittsend.com>> wrote:
>>
>>             On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 11:36 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>>             > On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 13:50 +0000, Beddingfield, Allen
>>             wrote:
>>             > > So, are any of you doing any Linux on PowerPC?
>>              Someone gave me an old
>>             > > 2Ghz PowerMac G5 (one of the big full tower aluminum
>>             ones that was
>>             > > about $3000+ back when it was new), with 3 GB of
>>             memory, and a 1TB
>>             > > hard drive.  It works great/has nothing wrong with it
>>             - not even a
>>             > > scratch on the exterior.  It looks like Debian or
>>             Yellowdog seem to be
>>             > > the main options for PPC these days...  this thing
>>             may be my weekend
>>             > > experiment :)
>>
>>             > Wow...  Weird how things just synchronisticly come
>>             together...
>>
>>             > No, I'm not actively working on PPC now although I do
>>             have the hardware
>>             > available to me.  In fact, said hardware may be a twin
>>             of your own.
>>
>>             > Be that as it may.  Fedora has been released on PPC (32
>>             and 64).
>>
>>             Ah, crap...  Strike that...
>>
>>             >
>>             https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PowerPC/F20_PPC_release_announcement
>>
>>             Reading in more detail was this unexpected gem
>>             (rhinestone)...
>>
>>
>>         yeah
>>
>>         " Apple MacPPC systems are not supported, have not been
>>         tested, and are not expected to work."
>>
>>         Very geared toward new IBM Power systems.
>>
>>
>>             --
>>             Supported Hardware
>>
>>             IBM POWER servers are the only systems fully supported by
>>             Fedora for
>>             Power at this time.
>>
>>             Apple MacPPC systems are not supported, have not been
>>             tested, and are
>>             not expected to work.
>>             --
>>
>>             Damn...  Guess that G5 sits a while longer...
>>
>>             > The coincidence is that I'm fielding some bugzilla
>>             reports on LXC at the
>>             > moment and one of them is a failure to install
>>             lxc-templates on a ppc64
>>             > arch due to a dependency on busybox (which is
>>             required).  Seems that
>>             > someone forgot to build busybox for F20 ppc even though
>>             it's present in
>>             > F19 ppc.  Still looking for who to lay hands on for
>>             that oversight.
>>             >
>>             > > --
>>             > > Allen Beddingfield
>>             > > Systems Engineer
>>             > > The University of Alabama
>>             >
>>             > Regards,
>>             > Mike
>>
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