Re: OT: Distribution for Power4 Machines

[Jake Moilanen]

> Thanks to Sven Luther our new installer fully supports power4 (as far as
> I know, I don't personally own one.)
> 
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/powerpc/current/
> 
> should contain a CD image that can boot your machine.

Unless they fixed this very recently, the kernels they build for power4
are the 32-bit ones.  Which work fine if you are booting power4 natively
(ie without it running in partition).  As soon as a power4 box is
running in a partition the kernel breaks because the 32-bit one does not
have the hypervisor calls.

I know Tom Gall has been working on Gentoo for ppc64.  

	http://dev.gentoo.org/~tgall/

Thanks,
Jake
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