Questions tagged [powerpc]
PowerPC is a RISC CPU architecture used mostly in servers and embedded systems.
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Strange bug on IBm 9111-285 and OpenFirmware
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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powerpc: how to create a bootable image?
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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Cross compile for ppc64 kernel, no way to generate Debian package?
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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Boot Delays on PowerPC Board with RTC Clock and hwclock --hctosys Command Related to Kernel Configurations
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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Debian 8.10.0 installation on PowerPC can't use CD-ROM
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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What sets little endian state when launching a ppc64le Linux kernel on POWER CPU?
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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Mapping Segment of Guest RAM to host file, in PPC QEMU
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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Cross-compile Linux-PAM: both pam.d and pam.conf are missing
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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