PA6T little endian mode: ppc64le kernels possible?
Christian Zigotzky
chzigotzky at xenosoft.de
Mon Nov 12 18:10:55 AEDT 2018
On 10 November 2018 at 8:20PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
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> On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 00:55 Christian Zigotzky
<chzigotzky at xenosoft.de> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> I read the following:
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> The part that is debatably the heart of the chip is a PowerPC
core called the PA6T, a full blown 64-bit PPC with an FPU, VMX
extensions and hypervisor support. It fully conforms to the PowerPC 2.04
architecture spec, and can operate in both big and little-endian modes.
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> —-
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> Is it possible to boot a ppc64le kernel on the PA6T?
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> Nobody has done the work to get the kernel to work in little endian
on these platforms. I wouldn't expect it to work without quite a bit of
effort.
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> -Olof
Thank you for your answer.
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