From: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: PA6T little endian mode: ppc64le kernels possible?
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:10:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5dbdedea-00fc-51d2-d3d9-4d379f1665dc@xenosoft.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOesGMhYpqze9Yi39C8Ub4GyrWWfAe1y6HLjhS2RnsrK-LBmtg@mail.gmail.com>
On 10 November 2018 at 8:20PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 00:55 Christian Zigotzky
<chzigotzky@xenosoft.de> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I read the following:
>
> 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.
>
> —-
>
> Is it possible to boot a ppc64le kernel on the PA6T?
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> -Olof
Thank you for your answer.
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2018-11-10 8:55 PA6T little endian mode: ppc64le kernels possible? Christian Zigotzky
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