linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] deb-pkg: Add support for powerpc little endian

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Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:12:21 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>
CC:	Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Gabriel Paubert <paubert@...m.es>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
	Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara@...onical.com>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] deb-pkg: Add support for powerpc little endian

On 2014-09-07 04:42, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 09:09 -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 05:55:18PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 09:13 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 03:28:47PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
>>>>> The Debian powerpc little endian architecture is called ppc64le.  This
>>>>
>>>> Huh? ppc64le or ppc64el?
>>>
>>> ppc64el.  Commit message is wrong.  Fixed below.
>>>
>>> Mikey
>>>
>>>
>>
>> What about ppc64?
>>
>> Also, I sent that already a month ago. Both linuxppc-dev and Michal
>> Marek were on cc.
>>
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=140744360328562&w=2
> 
> Anyone using powerpc (32-bit) will then need to add ppc64 as a foreign
> architecture before they can install a 64-bit custom kernel.  This is
> fine in principle, except that ppc64 is not an official Debian port and
> its packages are not mirrored on the same servers.
[...]
> So I think Michael's version, leaving big-endian kernels as powerpc by
> default, is preferable for now.

I applied v2 of Michael's patch to kbuild.git#misc.

Michal
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