[Debian-ppc64-devel] Re: How to start installation on an IBM power5

[Sven Luther]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 12:23:53PM +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> On May/25, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > Both of these efforts will be kind-of obsoleted once sarge is out (in one or
> > two weeks), and we move the main debian toolchain to support biarch, and build
> > the power3/power4 variants in ppc64 only, and there will be official support
> > for etch.
> 
> 	Well, let me take "in one or two weeks" with a grain of salt ;-)

Well, as you can see on the bottom of :

  http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php?ignore=sid&ignsec=on

The actual RC bug count affecting the release is 29, All packages are currently in
deep freeze, and all external factors (d-i, testing-security-architecture, etc)
are mostly in place, so it is rather positive.

> 	But anyway, I'm interested in all this process that you mention. I
> guess that updating the debian toolchain to support biarch will mean that you
> could build ppc64 binaries in a ppc32 environment, isn't it? Is there any
> document/list/web where I can find more information about all this?

yep. Current remaining hurdle is that the gcc we are building does not support
building biarch gcc on ppc32 (because it makes some stupid check and tries to
run the built executables i think), and information on it on the net is scarce
and hardly consistent.

Friendly,

Sven Luther