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Bootstrapping POWER8 Little Endian and Common Pitfalls

• jmnicolas 12y ago
  I'd be curious to have some benchmarks to see how Power compares to X86. According to IBM their architecture is miles ahead Intel, but there's never a real world bench to prove it's not just marketing.
  • desdiv 12y ago
    There are some good data points in previous HN discussions[0]. Runabove[1] offers Power8-based cloud instances, so anyone with the free time can do their own benchmarks. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8481851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8481851 [1] https://www.runabove.com https://www.runabove.com
• rab_oof 12y ago
  There's plenty of add'l howtos for cross bootstrapping Linux on the LFS site with everything step-by-step and with patches: Here's the PPC (might be big endian-mode): http://www.clfs.org/view/CLFS-3.0.0-SYSTEMD/ppc/ http://www.clfs.org/view/CLFS-3.0.0-SYSTEMD/ppc/