Re: linux-next: manual merge of the audit tree with the powerpc tree

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 12/14/21 20:32, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Le 14/12/2021 à 19:23, Paul Moore a écrit :
> > On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 12:59 PM Christophe Leroy
> > <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hello Paul,
> > >
> > > I've been trying to setup your test suite on my powerpc board but it's
> > > based on Perl and on a lot of optional Perl packages. I was able to add
> > > them one by one until some of them require some .so libraries
> > > (Pathtools-Cwd), and it seems nothing is made to allow cross building
> > > those libraries.
> > >
> > > Do you have another test suite based on C and not perl ?
> > >
> > > If not, what can I do, do you know how I can cross compile those Perl
> > > packages for PPC32 ?
> >
> > Is there no Linux distribution that supports PPC32?  I would think
> > that would be the easiest path forward, but you're the PPC32 expert -
> > not me - so I'll assume you already tried that or it didn't work for
> > other reasons.
>
> There hasn't been Linux distribution supporting PPC32 for a few years
> now. And regardless, the boards I'm running Linux on are home made
> embedded boards, with limited amount of memory and flashdisk space and
> no video chip, so they are hardly supported by any distributions, even
> older ones.

We still have debian. you will find images under :

  https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-04-17/

and from there, you can update to unstable, which runs fine under
a mac99 QEMU machine.

Cheers,

C.