[Dev] parabola GNU/Linux-libre on Risc-V and OpenPower

[Andreas Grapentin]

Haha, you're touching a sore point there, because I don't have
(physical) access to ppc and riscV hardware either. All the work has
been done in virtualization.

This is also currently the largest problem limiting progress on this
project, because compiling packages in emulated systems takes a lot
longer than on real hardware.

That being said, I believe that, on both architectures, parabola would
boot in its current state. You would need to mount the image locally and
extract the root file system to the real device, and then figure out how
to build and set up a working boot loader. This is something I could not
test yet, so I'm still a bit fuzzy about that. But the pieces are in
place.

I'm hoping for someone with real hardware to test the images, but so far
nobody has come forward :)

Best,
Andreas

On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 10:15:15AM -0400, Megver83 wrote:
> Awesome!! 🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉
> I'm really excited about this, my only pain is not having real ppc and
> risc-v hardware. Could you write a quick guide on how to install
> Parabola in this hardware? I might eventually get, at least, a risc-v
> SBC. This sunday is my birthday, so I wish someone gives me one as a gift 😁
> 
> El 08-04-21 a las 15:21, Andreas Grapentin escribió:
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I am happy to announce that today, the kingstone has been placed on top
> > of the parabola risc-V port, meaning that we can now reliably produce
> > virtual machine images running on both the riscv64 and the powerpc64le
> > architectures.
> > 
> > parabola is completely self-sufficient and self-hosted on these systems,
> > which means that, while the amount of available packages is limited, the
> > entire system, and indeed every other package, can be built and
> > reproduced using only packages that are already available and no further
> > cross-compilation is needed.
> > 
> > All of this work has been done on x86_64 parabola GNU/Linux-libre hosts
> > using exclusively free software, so the ports are not tainted by
> > non-free software.
> > 
> > If you want to check out the virtual machine images, they are available
> > here:
> > 
> > https://mirror.grapentin.org/parabola-ports/riscv64/
> > https://mirror.grapentin.org/parabola-ports/powerpc64le/
> > 
> > We are currently limited by a lack of actual hardware, which we would
> > need to progress further with these ports. There might be unforseen
> > issues if you try to deploy parabola to a physical device. Feel free to
> > contact us if you have a device to spare!
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > Andreas
> > 
> > 
> > oaken-source
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> > 
> > 
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