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PowerPC is a RISC CPU architecture used mostly in servers and embedded systems.

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I have this strange bug on Openfirmware with grub and ibm 9111-285 Workstation. I turn on workstation, it boot..and crash Appear this strange prompt 0 > ok 0 > ok 0 > reboot reboot, ...
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I want to create a rescue-cd for ppc64 (i need a custom kernel because the standard kernel give panic), my rescue-cd can boot my modified kernel, but on initramfs exit at this error No root device ...
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I have a modified debian-netinstall image for powerpc. I want to create a bootable iso This command create a non-bootable image mkisofs -R -J -V PPC-RESCUE * > ../debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-2.iso ...
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Warning: is ppc64 (be) and not ppc64le (le) be and le mean Big Endian Little Endian. I have an old ppc64 (be) ibm workstation, this is the sad situation about this architecture (which is still ...
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I start to cross-compile a kernel for an old ppc64 machine using a fast amd64 machine. I have installed all deps apt -y install bash-completion make build-essential linux-source bc kmod cpio flex ...
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I'm in the process of upgrading my desktop/server setup and am considering using POWER9 architecture. However, I'm a bit concerned about the level of support it receives from GNU/Linux distributions ...
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I am working on a PowerPC board using kernel version 4.1.35 and encountering significant boot delays, specifically around the RTC clock (ds-1337) operations. During the boot process, a script (hwclock....
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Is there a tool similar to debootstrap for a recent Linux distribution that supports PPC so I could build a working system or have an automated process to cross-compile a base install?
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So, I'm having an old PowerPC based IBM server, RS/6000 F50- that I'd like to get running simply for my own fun and hobby. There are several different OSes that can be installed on it and I was going ...
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I have an old IBM 9111-285 with AIX 7.1 Consider that Aix 7.2 don't boot on oldest ppc cpu's (this is a power5!) and Aix 7.1 is near EOL as I know I want to install Linux on it. Actually I have those &...
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I've been doing some research on ppc64le Linux and am unclear on how the POWER CPU is set to little endian. As I understand it the machine and CPU state will run as big endian by default in firmware. ...
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The IBM AIX Documentation for the svc (Supervisor Call) instruction has a note that states To ensure correct operation, an svc instruction must be preceded by an unconditional branch or a CR ...
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My desire is conceptually simple, I have a file (really a PCIe resource file from /sys/bus/pci/device/.... but that isn't too relevant) on the host that I want to make available somewhere in guest ...
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I have an old Apple PowerBook on which I dual boot Void Linux and Mac OSX Leopard. I had some hardware problems around July 2021 and it took until now for me to get it fixed. When I got it working ...
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I am trying to cross-compile Linux-PAM from a Ubuntu host machine to powerpc architecture (running linux kernel 2.6.34). First, I run ./configure command, giving the --host path to the cross compiler ...
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