Debian/ppc64el (unofficial port)

This wiki page tracks the progress of the ppc64el platform for Debian.
All binaries are currently based on the Debian archive snapshot 20140123T160750Z.

ABI Documentation

An Overview of the Open Power ELFv2 ABI.odp

Root filesystem

/!\ You should use debootstrap instead of downloading a pregenerated rootfs.

The public rootfs can be found at http://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/ppc64el/debian/rootfs/.

Credentials

User

Password

root

abc123

Archive

Binary Packages

The binary packages can be found at http://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/ppc64el/debian/archive/

Source Packages

The source packages are currently snapshot-based (http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20140123T160750Z), plus debdiffs found at http://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/ppc64el/debian/debdiff

Debootstrap

wget -O - http://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/ppc64el/debian/archive/debian.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
debootstrap --arch=ppc64el --variant=buildd --keyring=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg unstable debootstrap-ppc64el http://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/ppc64el/debian/archive/

Development Team

Contact

Buildd status

In progress.

ppc64el usertagged bugs (udd view)

References

http://www.open-power.org/