Re: Linux on a power 6

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

16.04 is a perfectly fine cut of Ubuntu (says this Ubuntu-on-x64 user who
later upgraded to 18).

I have looked into this some months back and I believe they did drop
big-endian after that, though I'll check around later.

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 8:19 AM, Kevin Bucknum <Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> The discussion yesterday got me interested in getting a lpar running. My
> main issues where figuring out how to get the disk correctly setup in
> vios and the hmc, finding the right distribution, and getting it to boot
> correctly. I managed to get the box to call home twice trying to get the
> lpar setup and the disk configured. That's what happens when you only do
> this every 3-4 years. It looks like Ubuntu 16.04 is the latest
> distribution with a PPC64 (not little endian) version. I can't tell if
> they dropped that version, or if it just isn't out yet. I get mixed
> signals from the posts I read. The boot issue was because yaboot expects
> its config file to be in /etc, but that isn't mounted at boot time.
> Copying /etc/yaboot.conf to /boot/etc/yaboot.conf fixed that problem.
>
>
>
> medtron@ppcubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
>
> No LSB modules are available.
>
> Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
>
> Description:        Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
>
> Release:               16.04
>
> Codename:        xenial
>
> medtron@ppcubuntu:~$ uname -a
>
> Linux ppcubuntu 4.4.0-116-powerpc64-smp #140-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 12
> 22:00:40 UTC 2018 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux
>
> medtron@ppcubuntu:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
>
> processor            : 0
>
> cpu                         : POWER6 (architected), altivec supported
>
> clock                      : 4204.000000MHz
>
> revision                : 3.2 (pvr 003e 0302)
>
>
>
> processor            : 1
>
> cpu                         : POWER6 (architected), altivec supported
>
> clock                      : 4204.000000MHz
>
> revision                : 3.2 (pvr 003e 0302)
>
>
>
> timebase             : 512000000
>
> platform              : pSeries
>
> model                   : IBM,8204-E8A
>
> machine                               : CHRP IBM,8204-E8A
>
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