Portal:PowerPC
Welcome to the PowerPC Portal edit
openSUSE for POWERtm is back! Thanks for OBS and KVM on POWER we are able to do a public builds. That means, you can, without any access to the PowerPC hardware, build your application for ppc64 or ppc64le architectures.
Feel free to join theopenSUSE Factory mailing list as well as the #openSUSE-factory IRC channel for questions or help. (the old opensuse-ppc list and channel are not used anymore). We are also actively looking for people to test our builds. If you have an PowerPC machine and you're encounter some bugs and are willing to spend some time to get it working with openSUSE, please contact us on the mailing list.
There is also always room for improvement on the package building side of things. You can check out Factory build failures for ppc64 and ppc64le.
Thanks and here's to getting our Geeko some Power.
In the news edit
Leap 15.2 PowerPC available on July 2020
- available in Leap page ; in Ports aarch64/ppc64le tab.
- known bugs at install time for Leap 15.2 ppc64le:
- boo#1174166 unable to install on bare-metal.
Leap 15.1 PowerPC available on May 2019
- available in Leap page ; in Ports aarch64/ppc64le tab.
- known bugs at install time for Leap 15.1 ppc64le:
- boo#1132748 invalid url from "Additional Online repositories" ; so answer "No" when requested to use them.
- PR#187 empty source repo; to be changed to http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/15.1/repo/oss/
Leap 15.0 PowerPC
- build never completed, so not available from legacy page but directly from download page
Leap 42.3 PowerPC available on 28th July 2017
- DVD and NET isos accessible from download page
Docker trial ppc64le Tumbleweed and Leap 42.3
- I just successfully tried to install docker in a Tumbleweed ppc64le guest and used it to pull and run the ppc64le/opensuse images available from Docker repository.
[michel@twppc64le:~] $sudo zypper install docker $sudo systemctl enable docker $sudo systemctl start docker $usermod -a -G docker michel === [michel@twppc64le:~] $docker pull ppc64le/opensuse $docker pull ppc64le/opensuse:tumbleweed $docker pull ppc64le/opensuse:42.3 $docker images REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE ppc64le/opensuse tumbleweed 74b5d7605cbf 39 hours ago 148MB ppc64le/opensuse 42.3 30109b769c78 39 hours ago 149MB ppc64le/opensuse latest 30109b769c78 39 hours ago 149MB === $docker run ppc64le/opensuse:tumbleweed cat /etc/os-release NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed" # VERSION="20171127" ID=opensuse ID_LIKE="suse" VERSION_ID="20171127" PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed" ANSI_COLOR="0;32" CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20171127" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org" HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/" === $docker run ppc64le/opensuse:42.3 cat /etc/os-release NAME="openSUSE Leap" VERSION="42.3" ID=opensuse ID_LIKE="suse" VERSION_ID="42.3" PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 42.3" ANSI_COLOR="0;32" CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:42.3" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org" HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"
Topics edit
| build archi | chips | available releases | comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| ppc (32bits) | ? | 13.1 | ? |
| ppc64 | G5 | 13.1 | ? |
| ppc64 | P5 P6 P7 | 13.1 13.2 Tumbleweed | ? |
| ppc64 | P8 | 13.2 Tumbleweed | ? |
| ppc64le | P8,P9 | Leap_42.2 Tumbleweed | ? |
This table is a first draft, to be completed/modified
Things to do edit
Tumbleweed
- openSUSE:Factory:PowerPC is OBS project for PowerPC Tumbleweed
- The list of packages to work in priority are in the 3 rings projects:
(But obsolete project pages as not enough resources to work on)
- dashboard for developers that points for PowerPC to last openQA results.
- DVD and NET ISOs for ppc64le (Little Endian) and ppc64 (Big Endian)
Leap
Portal:Leap wiki is general doc about Leap.
Leap 15.3 for PowerPC is pending dev Leap release
- openSUSE:Leap:15.3 is related OBS project (now all arches in one OBS project)
- openQA Leap 15.3 (even if named 15)
- Leap 15.3 dev isos and Leap 15.2 stable isos
Previous EOL Leap releases:
- Leap 42.3 DVD and NET isos accessible from download.opensuse.org
- Leap 15.0 for PowerPC is only built but not openQA tested as 20180530, only accessible from download iso
Development
There are many development activities you may work on:
- identify failing packages builds in one of two above PowerPC projects and work as summarized in obs tutorial
- identify failing openQA tests, create new issues/bugs and reference them as comments for ttm to be able to publish related snapshot in download.opensuse.org as summarized in Get_openQA_green
