PowerPC e6500 and wip-ppc

PowerPC e6500 and wip-ppc

[Matias Jose Seco Baccanelli]

Good morning Guixers !

I was curious to find out if the processor PowerPC e6500[1] is actually 
compatible with the integration of the PowerPC architecture in progress 
[2], is it actually suitable ?

My interest was sparked by a project which is developing an Open 
Hardware PPC Notebook [3], which i'm planning to purchase.

Have a nice Guix day!

Matias


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_e6500

[2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?h=wip-ppc

[3] https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/

Re: PowerPC e6500 and wip-ppc

[Efraim Flashner]

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On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 08:14:58AM +0100, Matias Jose Seco Baccanelli wrote:
> 
> Good morning Guixers !
> 
> I was curious to find out if the processor PowerPC e6500[1] is actually
> compatible with the integration of the PowerPC architecture in progress [2],
> is it actually suitable ?
> 
> My interest was sparked by a project which is developing an Open Hardware
> PPC Notebook [3], which i'm planning to purchase.
> 
> Have a nice Guix day!
> 
> Matias
> 
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_e6500
> 
> [2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?h=wip-ppc
> 
> [3] https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/
> 

The wip-ppc branch is currently targeting the ibook g4 on my desk. There
is ongoing work to target 64-bit PPC, both big and little endian. I
believe that one is closer to merging, there are just some last issues
about reproducibility of the bootstrap binaries. I'm pretty sure once
that is worked out it'll be ready to merge.

The bug report for the PPC64 issue is here: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/41669


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Re: PowerPC e6500 and wip-ppc

[Matias Jose Seco Baccanelli]

Il 28/10/20 08:27, Efraim Flashner ha scritto:
> The wip-ppc branch is currently targeting the ibook g4 on my desk. There
> is ongoing work to target 64-bit PPC, both big and little endian. I
> believe that one is closer to merging, there are just some last issues
> about reproducibility of the bootstrap binaries. I'm pretty sure once
> that is worked out it'll be ready to merge.
>
> The bug report for the PPC64 issue is here: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/41669


Hello,

Thanks Efraim for the insights!


Cheers,

Matias