#365 Issue closed: REAR support for Linux on the Power Architecture

Labels: needs sponsorship

earleye2014 opened issue at 2014-02-13 09:05:

I work with numerous customers who have implemented Linux on Power and they would like a solution like REAR. I have found that REAR can be executed on Power; however, currently it appears to not be possible to generate an ISO that is bootable on Power. Are there any plans to support Linux on Power? I could potentially help with this effort be providing information on the specific files that would need to be written to the ISO file to make it bootable on Power.

Thanks for your consideration

schlomo commented at 2014-02-13 10:24:

Improving the Power support would be great! The main problem with Power is
that nobody has a development system for it :-(

On 13 February 2014 10:05, earleye2014 notifications@github.com wrote:

I work with numerous customers who have implemented Linux on Power and
they would like a solution like REAR. I have found that REAR can be
executed on Power; however, currently it appears to not be possible to
generate an ISO that is bootable on Power. Are there any plans to support
Linux on Power? I could potentially help with this effort be providing
information on the specific files that would need to be written to the ISO
file to make it bootable on Power.

Thanks for your consideration

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earleye2014 commented at 2014-02-13 10:38:

I may be able to get you access to a Power system for a while -- if I can
would this be something that we could work on? I believe that having the
Power support in your tool would be beneficial to Power users and you would
see a definite uptick on customer usage.

Thanks for your consideration

Erwin Earley
IBM Lab Services and Training - POWER Systems
IBM Systems & Technology Group, Systems Software Development
Phone: 1-612-397-2382
e-mail: erwin.earley@us.ibm.com

From: Schlomo Schapiro notifications@github.com
To: rear/rear rear@noreply.github.com,
Cc: Erwin Earley/Rochester/IBM@IBMUS
Date: 02/13/2014 04:24 AM
Subject: Re: [rear] REAR support for Linux on the Power Architecture
(#365)

Improving the Power support would be great! The main problem with Power is
that nobody has a development system for it :-(

On 13 February 2014 10:05, earleye2014 notifications@github.com wrote:

I work with numerous customers who have implemented Linux on Power and
they would like a solution like REAR. I have found that REAR can be
executed on Power; however, currently it appears to not be possible to
generate an ISO that is bootable on Power. Are there any plans to support

Linux on Power? I could potentially help with this effort be providing
information on the specific files that would need to be written to the
ISO
file to make it bootable on Power.

Thanks for your consideration

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schlomo commented at 2014-02-13 11:11:

See http://relax-and-recover.org/development/ end of page (Professional
Services). Me myself won't be able to do this anytime soon, please ask the
other maintainers.

On 13 February 2014 11:38, earleye2014 notifications@github.com wrote:

I may be able to get you access to a Power system for a while -- if I can
would this be something that we could work on? I believe that having the
Power support in your tool would be beneficial to Power users and you
would
see a definite uptick on customer usage.

Thanks for your consideration

Erwin Earley
IBM Lab Services and Training - POWER Systems
IBM Systems & Technology Group, Systems Software Development
Phone: 1-612-397-2382
e-mail: erwin.earley@us.ibm.com

From: Schlomo Schapiro notifications@github.com
To: rear/rear rear@noreply.github.com,
Cc: Erwin Earley/Rochester/IBM@IBMUS
Date: 02/13/2014 04:24 AM
Subject: Re: [rear] REAR support for Linux on the Power Architecture
(#365)

Improving the Power support would be great! The main problem with Power is
that nobody has a development system for it :-(

On 13 February 2014 10:05, earleye2014 notifications@github.com wrote:

I work with numerous customers who have implemented Linux on Power and
they would like a solution like REAR. I have found that REAR can be
executed on Power; however, currently it appears to not be possible to
generate an ISO that is bootable on Power. Are there any plans to
support

Linux on Power? I could potentially help with this effort be providing
information on the specific files that would need to be written to the
ISO
file to make it bootable on Power.

Thanks for your consideration

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gdha commented at 2014-02-18 07:56:

@earleye2014 we would be glad to accept pull requests for POWER PC. As @schlomo already mentioned we do not have such Hardware in our possession, so I'm not sure how we can help you?
Perhaps you could raise the question on the mailing list? There must be Power users among the members. If you have questions we can try to answer these, or otherwise, consider a consultancy request.

gdha commented at 2015-06-03 11:19:

PPC support is already included in rear -1.17. We can close this general request for now.

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