PA6T little endian mode: ppc64le kernels possible?

PA6T little endian mode: ppc64le kernels possible?

[Christian Zigotzky]

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.

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Is it possible to boot a ppc64le kernel on the PA6T?

Thanks,
Christian

Re: PA6T little endian mode: ppc64le kernels possible?

[Christian Zigotzky]

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@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.