[Just a note that I know we have some hardware in Brno, and this is
not a question about that - it's about how to have hardware locally]
I was looking at what hardware Fedora/ppc supports, since the Mac G5
seems to be obsolete and there have been a few regressions (like the
ISO no longer booting).
It'd be nice to have support for POWER v2.06 (POWER7) and v2.07 (POWER8),
and for big and little endian, at least in guests. Hardware virt would
be good too.
Seems as if the choices are:
- Virtualization (on x86). This is what I'm using now, and it sucks.
But it does work.
- Tyan OpenPOWER. Muchos expensive - $2800 + massive import duties.
- FreeScale T4240RDP. This is a 12 core e6500 designed for edge
router applications. Seems to be big endian only? Or little
endian is incompatible with AltiVec. I'm fairly sure Fedora
wouldn't just boot on this hardware, but as it runs Linux there is
some hope.
- Erm, that's it.
So is there anything else, apart from very expensive IBM iron?
Rich.
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