Re: Please review blog post draft: powerpc64le-linux support

[Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>]

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Hi Tobias,

Thank you very much for taking the time to review the blog post!

Tobias Platen <guix@platen-software.de> writes:

> On Fri, 09 Apr 2021 00:59:44 +0200
> Léo Le Bouter <lle-bout@zaclys.net> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2021-04-08 at 09:37 -0700, Chris Marusich wrote:
>> > They also say in that Twitter thread: "We have been putting together
>> > our
>> > systems from blob-free components only (sans NIC as is known and
>> > being
>> > actively worked), and this is an area where no low-cost blob-free
>> > silicon is available right now."
>> > 
>> 
>> I've been using the Free Software firmware replacement for the NIC
>> since a while now and it's working great: 
>> https://github.com/meklort/bcm5719-fw/
>
> I've install that firmware on my Talos II and I can confirm that it works.
> I have reviewed 0001-website-drafts-Add-powerpc64le-linux-announcement.patch and it looks good.
> It would be good to mention the Libre-SoC project(https://libre-soc.org/), which might be a good target for the future.

I think that project is interesting, but I don't think I'll add a
section expliclty mentioning it in the post this time.  I originally did
discuss RISC-V in passing, but it felt out of place, since the focus of
the blog post is really on the POWER9 support.  The blog post is already
quite long, so I tried to cut out what I could.

I appreciate the suggestion, though.  I hope that somebody will try
porting to Libre-SoC as well, and RISC-V, too!

-- 
Chris

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