On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 01:59:47AM -0400, Christopher Li wrote: > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There is https://dsa.debian.org/doc/guest-account/ which would give you > > the possibility to access some Debian machines. Other than that I intend > > Sorry for the delay. Thanks for the pointer of the guest account. Tell me if you want to do that. And plan for a delay because there is some "paper work" to be done before; mainly by other people, so it might (or might not) take a moment. > > to upload 0.5.1 to Debian soon and then can provide you links to build > > failures in the build server farm :-) And if you have a patch, I can > > volunteer to make the test monkey for you. > > 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. https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el/Installation mentions you can run this under qemu however. Best regards Uwe
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