Re: Linux on P7?

message: 2
date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:38:25 -0300
from: Roberto Jos? Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Linux on P7?

There are a few things to take into account. POWER Systems PRE POWER8

only

run BIG endian distros, that is, ppc64 compiled distros. POWER8 and above
run both ppc64 and ppc64el (LITTLE endian). Ubuntu is only Little endian.
Redhat, Suse, Centos, and a lot other have ppc64 distros.
The "official" tag is a reference to official support. You only care

about

support on production machines.
I've loaded OpenSUSE on a Power5 machine so you can load without any
problems on a Power6.
Like they've said, If the machine had 520b x sector disks you will have

to

reformat them (if they are 2.5" drives AND they support it) or exchange
them for any SAS disk that fits in the bay (xSeries drives sometimes have
the same tray and work perfectly for AIX/Linux).
Obviously you won't have a video adapter unless the machine came with one
(and they seldom do even when they are AIX machines), so you will only

have

the tty device from the HMC and the ones in the machine itselft, at least
until you bring up the network.

Best of luck playing with LoP!

This gives me hope to try and get my 8204-E8A Power6 550 up on a open
source Linux distro. Loading IBMi as the primary OS isn't going to happen
without a firmware upgrade that I am not entitled to. Thanks for bringing
up this topic, and I will follow up if I have any success.


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