[Debian-ppc64-devel] Debian running on a pSeries 6E4 - almost

[Sven Luther]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 06:55:22PM +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> 
> 	I answer to myself. Excuse my narcisism :-)
> 
> On May/31, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> 
> > 	I don't know exactly what to do with that. I'm going to try using the
> > serial console (I installed using it, and it worked perfectly), but anyway I'd
> > like to know how to use the video console too.
> 
> 	... and it worked like a charm. Now the system is installed and
> running. Thanks to all those involved :-)
> 
> 	Now, questions:
> 
> 	- I've realized that the userland is ppc32 code. If so, and besides
> 	  the installer, what's the difference between Cajus' mirror and a
> 	  normal Debian powerpc repository? I.e., could I use a normal
> 	  repository now that I've got a working system installed?

You only really need a 64bit procutils, to avoid that the process ids
wrappover at the 32bit boundary. This means a biarch glibc and a biarch
libncurses. There is something being worked on from the ubuntu side, and will
go to debian/experimental shortly after the sarge release.

> 	- Could I use Andreas Jochens' mirror, with 64bit-compiled binaries?
> 	  Would it make a mess, when mixed with the already installed ppc32
> 	  base?

No, that will create a mess, those stuff is not integrated with the ppc32
stuff, and is a wholly different architecture, so dpkg/apt will refuse to
install them. Apart from the performance hit you will get from it, naturally.

Also, i would appreciate if you could test the kernel i posted
(http://people.debian.org/~luther/ppc64), and tell me how it went, i guess it
will fail, but it is nice to have as much reports as possible, together with a
working .config file to compare against.

Friendly,

Sven Luther