Re: buliding and testing PowerPC KVM

Hollis Blanchard
2008-03-21T19:44:00Z

On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 13:02 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Other than that, and the few minor comments that popped up, this
> (very
> nice) patchset will be very easy to merge. IIRC you mentioned it is
> possible for me to get an s390 account; this will be very useful in
> avoiding breaking this port, as happens quite often with ppc and
> ia64.
> I'd like to be able to do both build and run testing.

As for building the PowerPC code, cross-compiling is easy with
http://kegel.com/crosstool . There are also a number of servers offering
remote PowerPC ssh access: see http://penguinppc.org/dev/#remote .

For run testing, we are only working on 440 host support right now, so
you would need a board like the Sequoia
(https://www.em.avnet.com/evk/home/0,1719,RID%253D0%2526CID%253D37101%
2526CCD%253DUSA%2526SID%253D32214%2526DID%253DDF2%2526LID%253D32232%
2526BID%253DDF2%2526CTP%253DEVK,00.html). In the future we should be
able to run 440 guests on e.g. POWER5 hosts, but we've already got our
hands full without that.

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center