On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 12:12:00 +0100
Timo Schöler <timo(a)riscworks.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> If there ever was a CentOS7 option for POWER
>>
>> There's chatting about this, yes.
>>
>> Last year I started on porting CentOS 5 onto Power, but got stuck
>> due to lack of spare time.
>>
>>> I suspect they would take
>>> the same options for RHEL, and POWER6 dates back to 06/07 so
>>> define old.
>>
>> Sure. At least a Power 5 box isn't that old it would be the same
>> category as a Sun SPARCstation 20, which is still supported by
>> OpenBSD, e.g.
>>
>> What may be of importance is that the 285 is the last *real*
>> workstation, AFAIK.
>>
>> Would happily buy a new workstation by IBM or the OpenPower
>> consortium, too! :)
>>
>> I am indeed just installing Final Release Candidate 6 (RC6)
>>
>>
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ppc/2014-December/003199.html
>>
>>
http://riscworks.net/static/Fedora/f21_285.jpg
>
> Timo, how did the install go? Was is it as straightforward as
> placing a DVD in the drive and run?
Hi, yes, I just re-tested it with the most recent image and a 9111-285
(see dmesg etc attached). Works like a charm.
sounds great and I've already updated the hardware section in the
release notes
I used the GUI installer (not remote, using VNC, but really with
screen and keyboard), which works well. Even without any palette
mismatch, what I always got after first reboot.
I *think* the guys from cruxppc had a patch here, a friend of mine
there was a patch to "Add GXT4000P and GXT6500P support to the gxt4500
driver" which is now in the mainline kernel for some time
told me. I usually use console/network to work on that machine, my
friend wants to use it as a real workstation, with GUI. AFAIR, the
GXT6500P is supported by the kernel. I'll have a look at this -- if
nobody has a hint here, I may open a bug report on this.
Dan