[Debian-ppc64-devel] ppc64 pseries 2.6.11-2 .deb kernel available.

[Sven Luther]

Hello all,

Thanks to the great job of Jeff Bailey and Matthias Klose, who provided a set
of gcc-3.4/glibc-2.3.5 based biarch toolchain, i have managed to build a first
ppc64 kernel package, which is available at :

  http://people.debian.org/~luther/ppc64

Altough obviously untested, as i don't have a ppc64 box, it should install
over a normal sarge system, and run on all ppc64 boxes, from power3 RS6K ones
to newer iseries, passing by all apple G5 macs, except for the older
pre-power5 iseries. It is built without power4 optimization and in SMP mode
only for now, since i want to get this flavour tested and investigated before
multiplicating the different kernel images.

This kernel is *not* yet for production, since at least it will want a 64bit
compiled procutils, to take care of 64bit process ids in /proc.

Future plans include integrating these kernels in etch, once the biarch
toolchain makes it to it, and working on a ppc64 d-i, but first please test
this kernel on as much as possible 64bit powerpc machines, and provide
feedback to me.

Friendly,

Sven Luther