Re: old OpenServers able to use Debian?
On 3/13/19 7:44 AM, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:10:15PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> No, there is no need for such, because POWER5 is above the baseline for
>> ppc64, which should be POWER4. So all ppc64 binaries from Debian Ports
>> adhering to this baseline should also work out of the box on POWER5 IIC.
>
> Actually, the baseline for the kernel is Power5 since commit 471d7ff8b51
> in February 2018, before 4.17, and the commit message indicates that Power4
> was broken by a commit that took place during the 4.9-rc1 merge window.
That's correct. However, this applies to IBM machines only. Support for PPC970
machines, which are supposedly something between POWER4 and POWER5, is still
in the kernel.
The same applies for various embedded PowerPC platforms.
Adrian
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