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Hello Jack,
Am 04.04.2020 um 22:19 schrieb Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
While we're on the subject of antique systems:
If someone gifted me a P7 ...
P7, antique. :-D
What would it take to put Linux on it? Would I need to pay goblin gold to IBM or a distro or can I just download an image and go?
Debian PPC64le (64-Bit PowerPC, little endian) images are readily available from debian.org or Canonical (Ubuntu Server). As far as I know, P8 was the first POWER to fully support LE mode, though.
All PPC and POWER have been big endian, and most Linux Distros ceased to support big endian for unknown reasons. Maybe not enough demand?
Wow, I just looked and Debian again supports Big Endian! Hooray!
https://wiki.debian.org/PPC64
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness
If only I knew how to actually IPL an Image in a secondary LPAR. Last time I checked (around one year ago), documentation about needed IPL parameters in HMC and/or *NWSD objects was simply not detailed enough.
:wq! PoC
PGP-Key: DDD3 4ABF 6413 38DE -
https://www.pocnet.net/poc-key.asc
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