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, for example the IBM S812LC server is reasonably price competitive to similar x86 servers and fully supported by the ppc64le port.

These are the IBM machines model that would support Alpine Linux:

* IBM Power System S821LC  [1]
* IBM Power System S822LC for Big Data [2]
* IBM Power System S822LC for Commercial Computing [3]
* IBM Power System S822LC for High Performance Computing [IBM Power System S822LC for High Performance Computing]
* IBM Power System S812L and S822L [4]
* IBM Power System S824L [5]
* IBM Power System S812 [6]
* IBM Power System S822 [7]
* IBM Power System S814 [8]
* IBM Power System S824 [9]
* IBM Power Enterprise Systems for the cloud [10]
* IBM Power System E850C [11]
* IBM Power System E850 [12]
* IBM Power System E870 [13]
* IBM Power System E880 [14]

Tyan also has machines:

* Tyan TN76-BP016 
* Tyan GT75-BP012
* Tyan TN71-BP012

Supermicro is also expected to have machines available.

Installation

TODO

Archive status

Initial bringup on builders.

Missing packages:

main

aiccu apg cmocka collectd compiler-rt freeswitch gdb libgsasl libquvi-scripts linux-vanilla lua-xml luajit nagios-plugins ncftp(*) opensmtpd 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)