[Debian-ppc64-devel] is this port alife?

[Harald Görl]

Hi Andreas, Sven.
I'm one of the contact persons in Augsburg (Computing Center at the 
University) who is responsible for the OpenPower donation by IBM for the 
Debian project.

> Also; when i asked the debian-admin team what would be needed to bring one of
> the augsbourg machines in the official debian hardware network, so they could
> be used as developer machine or even as buildd, my offer was rejected with a
> "we have enough powerpc machiens", and myself i feel unconfortable using those
> machines for anything official if their admining is not controlled by debian.

Sven, while i understand this of course, i can only say that it would be 
possible to give you *full* control over the machine. I would feel 
better if we had root access on all of the machines running here, but if 
that would be a "killer criterion" things can change! Essentially 
Bastian has the full control over the machines and full control over the 
Management Console.

I'm sorry that the machines do not support the official Debian buildd.

> They even have this nice logical partitioning thingy, and can thus have
> various virutal machines inside each one, available only to a subset of people
> or usage in a secure way.

As far as i know some Debian development efforts (only supporting some 
base-packages) do take place on these OpenPower machines here, Bastian, 
is that wrong?

And Andreas, could you explain "i try to secure power5 machines" a 
little bit more? I'm interested in that.

Cheers,
Harald