Dev1 Galaxy Forum / How is IBM support?

Re: How is IBM support?

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 20:15:17 +0000

We are happy to have made you happy.

Re: How is IBM support?

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 20:07:05 +0000

^ +1

I have seldom been so happy to have been proved wrong :-)

Re: How is IBM support?

dummy@example.com (czeekaj) — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:46:44 +0000

Wow, thanks guys. That is exciting news to me.

Re: How is IBM support?

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:38:50 +0000

There's a ppc64el mini.iso for beowulf.
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dis … s/netboot/

Re: How is IBM support?

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:37:39 +0000

Yes, it is supported in beowulf:

https://beta.devuan.org/os/

Re: How is IBM support?

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:55:01 +0000

The Calgary units are used in x86 servers rather than POWERn machines.

The supported architectures for Devuan are listed here: https://devuan.org/os/documentation/dev … nformation

So no, it doesn't look like ppc64el is on the list. Which is a shame.

How is IBM support?

dummy@example.com (czeekaj) — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:39:02 +0000

I get an error on dmsg, but digging into it revealed it is a kernel function for IBM motherboard support.
Failed to map dmar2.
and Something about
Calgary: Detecting Calgary via bios EBDA area

https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … -this-mean
So does this mean getting devuan running on system using IBM's Power CPU might be trivial? Is support enabled by default?