| 10 Feb 2026 |
 Alex | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
You don't write "the IR is host endian" into your spec if you have EVER used a BE system Portability? Who needs that nonsense? (/s) | 08:40:58 |
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| Stas | Hello! Joining here for my Mac G5 nixos efforts :) | 12:08:14 |
 Puna | i prefer thinking of it as a general ppc64 effort that just so happens to be done on G5 machines :) | 16:41:50 |
| Puna | more affordable & easier to come by than RS/6000 or pSeries machines | 16:43:46 |
| Stas | I am waiting for POWER8 gear to be discontinued at work to get my hands on them | 17:05:51 |
| Stas | Even helping with migration efforts ;) | 17:06:15 |
| Puna | ooh that'd be nice. do you happen to know what boot mechanism they use? i assume its nothing like the G5 or its POWER-based contemporaries (CHRP). what was it... OPAL & skiroot/skiboot? | 17:24:18 |
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| Stas | They boot up very much like rs/6000 ipl | 18:27:36 |
| Stas | In my case they go to PowerVM hypervisor, but you can run AIX or any other OS | 18:28:19 |
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| Puna | sorry, i meant more as in: what does it look for when detecting bootable mediums? PowerMacs look for a HFS partition on an APM disk with a blessed system dir and a tbxi-blessed bootinfo file (with all-caps SGML tags). CHRP hardware (like the RS/6000 i think?) look for /ppc/bootinfo.txt on any recognised partition. skiboot i have no clue about, ppc64le ppl might now? | 20:19:03 |
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