Re: Debian with Reiser4-patched Linux kernel on IBM Power8

From	Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.kernel, linux.debian.maint.boot
Subject	Re: Debian with Reiser4-patched Linux kernel on IBM Power8
Date	2016-05-07 17:10 +0200
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On 04/20/2016 01:11 PM, Jonáš Vidra wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 12:53:48 +0200 Jose R R <Jose.r.r@metztli-it.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> is there any reason why Reiser4 SFRN 4.0.1-enabled Debian should not
>> run on Power8? I assume GPT should be selected whereas previously I
>> have tested -- on AMD64 baremetal and cloud -- only MSDOS disk
>> partitioning.
>
> There might be some problems with the endianness of the system.


Yup. Specifically, bitmap code sucks.
I don't remember details though..

Edward.


>
> I have tested Reiser4 on 32bit PowerPC several years ago and as far as I
> remember, mounting and using a preformatted partition (mkfs done on an 
> x86
> machine) was possible, but a partition formatted on PowerPC was unusable.
> I can repeat the tests, if you are interested.
>

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Debian with Reiser4-patched Linux kernel on IBM Power8 Jose R R <Jose.r.r@metztli-it.com> - 2016-04-20 13:00 +0200
  Re: Debian with Reiser4-patched Linux kernel on IBM Power8 Jose R R <Jose.r.r@metztli-it.com> - 2016-04-20 13:30 +0200
  Re: Debian with Reiser4-patched Linux kernel on IBM Power8 Jonáš Vidra <vidra.jonas@seznam.cz> - 2016-04-20 13:50 +0200
    Re: Debian with Reiser4-patched Linux kernel on IBM Power8 Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-07 17:10 +0200

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