On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 2:27 AM, Uwe Kleine-König <u...@kleine-koenig.org> wrote: >> BTW, if I want to get a PPC64 machine for Linux testing purpose, is the >> used apple G5 a good place to start? > > Honestly I don't know. https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el tells > > Debian/ppc64el requires, at minimum, a POWER8 processor machine. > Although Debian was initially bootstrapped on a POWER7 set of > servers. this class of server is not supported anymore, and you > are not able to run Debian/ppc64el on a POWER7 processor without > hitting an illegal instruction fault. > > Hm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER8 tells: > > Systems based on POWER8 became available from IBM in June > 2014. Systems and POWER8 processor designs made by other > OpenPOWER members was available in early 2015. > > So I think this rules out a G5.
Thanks for the tip. I am glad I asked before I pull the trigger. > https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el/Installation mentions you can run this > under qemu however. Good idea. I will give that a try too. Chris
