Re: [GNU-linux-libre] ppc64el support in endorsed distros

[Andreas Grapentin]

Thank you for the pointer. :)

The toolchain situation has already been sorted out and the bootstrap
process for powerpc64le is almost complete. I'll be back with more
information as soon as we have a first booting VM (probably somewhere
around next week)

It would be immensely helpful if we had some more real hardware to work
with. ebrasca owns a TalosII machine, but it is currently under repair.
If we could get funding for a second Talos from the FSF, we would be
able to get this port underway a lot quicker. Does anyone know if this
would be a feasible request?

Best,
Andreas

On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 11:58:04PM +0200, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2018 12:46:32 +0200
> Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <address@hidden> wrote:
> > == Cross toolchains ==
> > In Parabola we have crosstool-ng but I didn't spend enough time
> > on it to successfully create a toolchain.
> > > $ pacman -sS crosstool
> > > pcr/crosstool-ng 1.23.0-1.parabola1
> > >     Versatile (cross-)toolchain generator, with Linux-libre kernel
> > > support pcr/crosstool-ng-git 1.22.0.r21.g2d3c70d-1.parabola2
> > >     Versatile cross-toolchain generator, with Linux-libre kernel
> > > support  
> Some days ago, I tried pcr/crosstool-ng on an x86_64 machine with 8G of
> ram, to build a gcc-4 cross toolchain for ARM with no libc (bare
> metal). It is very easy to use, this time it worked out of the box.
> 
> It also seems to be able to generate toolchains for powerPC 64bit
> little endian but I didn't test that.
> 
> Denis.



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