From: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
To: "Jonáš Vidra" <vidra.jonas@seznam.cz>,
"ReiserFS Development List" <reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jose R R <Jose.r.r@metztli-it.com>,
debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Debian with Reiser4-patched Linux kernel on IBM Power8
Date: Sat, 07 May 2016 16:42:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <572DFED3.5080006@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.yf7tcmn9hogzsi@i17b>
On 04/20/2016 01:11 PM, Jonáš Vidra wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 12:53:48 +0200 Jose R R <Jose.r.r@metztli-it.com>
> wrote:
>
>> is there any reason why Reiser4 SFRN 4.0.1-enabled Debian should not
>> run on Power8? I assume GPT should be selected whereas previously I
>> have tested -- on AMD64 baremetal and cloud -- only MSDOS disk
>> partitioning.
>
> There might be some problems with the endianness of the system.
Yup. Specifically, bitmap code sucks.
I don't remember details though..
Edward.
>
> I have tested Reiser4 on 32bit PowerPC several years ago and as far as I
> remember, mounting and using a preformatted partition (mkfs done on an
> x86
> machine) was possible, but a partition formatted on PowerPC was unusable.
> I can repeat the tests, if you are interested.
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-07 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-20 10:53 Debian with Reiser4-patched Linux kernel on IBM Power8 Jose R R
2016-04-20 11:11 ` Jonáš Vidra
2016-04-20 11:23 ` Jose R R
2016-05-07 14:42 ` Edward Shishkin [this message]
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