Re: [PATCH v2] deb-pkg: Add support for powerpc little endian

From: Michal Marek
Date: Fri Sep 12 2014 - 10:12:29 EST


On 2014-09-07 04:42, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 09:09 -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 05:55:18PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 09:13 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 03:28:47PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
>>>>> The Debian powerpc little endian architecture is called ppc64le. This
>>>>
>>>> Huh? ppc64le or ppc64el?
>>>
>>> ppc64el. Commit message is wrong. Fixed below.
>>>
>>> Mikey
>>>
>>>
>>
>> What about ppc64?
>>
>> Also, I sent that already a month ago. Both linuxppc-dev and Michal
>> Marek were on cc.
>>
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=140744360328562&w=2
>
> Anyone using powerpc (32-bit) will then need to add ppc64 as a foreign
> architecture before they can install a 64-bit custom kernel. This is
> fine in principle, except that ppc64 is not an official Debian port and
> its packages are not mirrored on the same servers.
[...]
> So I think Michael's version, leaving big-endian kernels as powerpc by
> default, is preferable for now.

I applied v2 of Michael's patch to kbuild.git#misc.

Michal
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