From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Edward Shishkin Subject: Re: Debian with Reiser4-patched Linux kernel on IBM Power8 Date: Sat, 07 May 2016 16:42:27 +0200 Message-ID: <572DFED3.5080006@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mbQyMTfLIXPHx/VxN0TqpTNCZ5rz/ehgPkM6HYudVwE=; b=rfmcyN+/2L1rREUIIS8/74h6m4ro8vTvD/yLE+/fY8uKsz0qh5Scmo0DoDR10mCVZW 6l7kH3uYhNDDFwdm3PFgC+XtlzXlQ/VZ1kcxd8yU0bZDt8ZlUabFRo9zSonYIo+jBMS3 SpnUyMTzw3p0WGfD8oFOFVlxBm4nzY/zBNj1+jpIQZVdtxeFq9pXA/VOUNe0fF4JSNGD mcN0n4vsdqkX9/ylc+CGPuAi9qQkioQb/ND3Y9AvwHp9DBxxOgNiY8NeISSqEBMFM7K0 /houob2Lte0D8+hr5cGDuPuucUes6Nllo2i8PhU3KTMiNbqVq6nlFeJfKvebAQaRfHYC Kj+A== In-Reply-To: Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format="flowed" To: =?UTF-8?B?Sm9uw6HFoSBWaWRyYQ==?= , ReiserFS Development List Cc: Jose R R , debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org On 04/20/2016 01:11 PM, Jon=C3=A1=C5=A1 Vidra wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 12:53:48 +0200 Jose R R = =20 > 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 a= s I > remember, mounting and using a preformatted partition (mkfs done on a= n=20 > x86 > machine) was possible, but a partition formatted on PowerPC was unusa= ble. > I can repeat the tests, if you are interested. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-deve= l" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html