Powerpc on BAFM

stages

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:12:01 +0000

For what it’s worth, I’ve been trying to get some stages together the last few days. Thanks to solar and Brent, the ppc-stages are now coming along quite fast.

I haven’t really tested them yet, but for what it’s worth, you’ll find stages based on Saturday’s snapshot (that is 200780105 for those not smart enough to take a look at the calendar) here for the following profiles:

uclibc/ppc (normal/-softfloat)
uclibc/ppc/hardened
uclibc/x86
uclibc/x86/hardened
hardened/amd64
hardened/amd64/nomultilib
hardened/x86/2.6 (x86/i686)

Now remember, this isn’t official release material. This is just MY effort ( for now) to provide current stages.

Building RPMs on SLES10SP2-ppc64

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:50:36 +0000

Well, it turns out that building stuff on ppc64 is a real pain in the ass, at least on anything SUSE related. I do have to tweak every damn spec to include this:

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%ifarch ppc64
export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -m64"
%endif

Otherwise, ld is gonna fail when linking, as it’s gonna try linking the generated 64bit code ( -m64 is passed on via RPM_OPT_FLAGS to CFLAGS) as 32bit code, which ain’t gonna work at all …

The clue to build ppc64 RPM's

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:52:22 +0000

Remember, I talked about building RPM’s on SLES10SP2 on ppc64 ? Well, turns out I was rather stupid .. and it was rather simple (don’t ask me why I didn’t think of that). I tried asking solar, I used Google (apparently with the wrong search parameters), nothing though. Not a clue.

Today it bugged me again, so I used Google again. This time with " ppc64 suse rpmbuild", and guess what I saw within the preview of the second hit ..

EPIA fun

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:39:07 +0000

Well, as for replacing my current fileserver (which I seriously need to consider replacing), I’ll just pick up these things:

3WARE 9550SXU-8LP (that’s 399,00€) plus riser card
VIA EPIA EK 8000EG (that’s 201,69€)
Kingston ValueRAM DIMM 1 GB DDR-400 (that’s 57,00€)
4x Seagate ST31000340NS (that’s 279,00€ each - making a subtotal of 1.116,00€)

So after browsing some more for a replacement for my current fileserver, I’d like to share the latest stages with you people. Thanks to Mike (who mentioned that binutils-2.18* already does the LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,relro" part) I replaced it with "-Wl,-O1". Same old place, there’s fresh stages … (and thanks again to Mike, with working util-linux-2.13-r2).