linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the audit tree with the powerpc tree

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Date:   Tue, 14 Dec 2021 21:30:12 +0100
From:   Cédric Le Goater <clg@...d.org>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
CC:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        PowerPC <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the audit tree with the powerpc tree

On 12/14/21 20:32, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 14/12/2021 à 19:23, Paul Moore a écrit :
>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 12:59 PM Christophe Leroy
>> <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu> wrote:
>>> Hello Paul,
>>>
>>> I've been trying to setup your test suite on my powerpc board but it's
>>> based on Perl and on a lot of optional Perl packages. I was able to add
>>> them one by one until some of them require some .so libraries
>>> (Pathtools-Cwd), and it seems nothing is made to allow cross building
>>> those libraries.
>>>
>>> Do you have another test suite based on C and not perl ?
>>>
>>> If not, what can I do, do you know how I can cross compile those Perl
>>> packages for PPC32 ?
>>
>> Is there no Linux distribution that supports PPC32?  I would think
>> that would be the easiest path forward, but you're the PPC32 expert -
>> not me - so I'll assume you already tried that or it didn't work for
>> other reasons.
> 
> There hasn't been Linux distribution supporting PPC32 for a few years
> now. And regardless, the boards I'm running Linux on are home made
> embedded boards, with limited amount of memory and flashdisk space and
> no video chip, so they are hardly supported by any distributions, even
> older ones.

We still have debian. you will find images under :

   https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-04-17/

and from there, you can update to unstable, which runs fine under
a mac99 QEMU machine.

Cheers,

C.