Ppc64le

This page is used to describe the ppc64le port.

Testing (for developers)

The hosting sponsor for the ppc64le port operate a miniCloud service which will provide Alpine ppc64le images for testing. For more information, google "openpower minicloud" (I would include a link but our wiki software is too paranoid apparently. that's cool.)

Hardware

You can buy POWER8 hardware from IBM or other vendors, the IBM S812LC server is reasonably price competitive to similar x86 servers and fully supported by the ppc64le port.

(todo: it would be nice to have a list of server/workstations you can buy other than the IBM S812LC)

Installation

TODO

Archive status

Initial bringup on builders.

Missing packages:

main

aiccu apg cmocka collectd compiler-rt freeswitch garcon gdb libgsasl libquvi-scripts linux-vanilla lua-xml luajit nagios-plugins ncftp(*) opensmtpd perl-carp-clan php5 pmacct py-curl py-imaging qemu ser2net smokeping(*) strace valgrind weechat xf86-video-rendition

Testing:

afl aqbanking audit captagent corkscrew dante dash drawterm dspam etckeeper exim grub hitch jpegoptim libcypher-parser libgnomecanvas libmhash lldb lxappearance-obconf mlocate mxml ndctl opensips ossec-hids perl-autobox perl-www-curl py-flake8-class py-sphinxcontrib-programoutput qperf rapidjson silc-client slrn thermald timew w_scan wmi-client xbps

Community:

cfengine(fixed) chicken geany-plugins(*) gns3-server go-bootstrap irssi-xmpp libevhtp libtermkey makepasswd(fixed) monitoring-plugins mumudvb nodejs-current obnam ocaml openblas openjdk7 openlibm perl-data-denter perl-log-dispatch-config perl-term-progressbar psmisc py-greenlet py-pygit2 py-sphinx-autobuild raptor2 shadow vigra(fixed)