[bind10-dev] Porting BIND10 to ppc64le?

[Tomek Mrugalski]

I was contacted couple days ago by Snehal from IBM. He's working on
porting various open source packages to little endian 64bit PowerPC
architecture. He sent me some (very small) patches for Dibbler.
The changes required were minimal - only config.sub|guess. If those two
files are generated by the newest (2.4.2.418 alpha) libtool, patches are
not needed at all.

I pointed him towards BIND10. Hopefully, we will hear from him soon.
Let's see if we get the list of supported hardware platforms expanded in
the process.

Tomek

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Dibbler-devel] Question regarding dibbler pkg
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:05:05 +0530
From: snehal <snehal at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Tomasz Mrugalski <thomson at klub.com.pl>
CC: Dibbler development list. <dibbler-devel at klub.com.pl>,        Deepak
C Shetty <deepakcs at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Tomek,

Thanks for your quick response. It is OK even if you let me know after
your vacation.

I currently don't have any information about bind10 PKG, will get back
to you once I get some information about it.

Snehal



On 11/20/2013 06:36 PM, Tomasz Mrugalski wrote:
> On 20.11.2013 11:59, snehal wrote:
>> IBM is working on developing Little Endian version of PowerLinux.
>> More details are :
>> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-2e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32/entry/confessions_of_a_recovering_proprietary_programmer_endianness?lang=en.
>> Support for Little Endian has already been accepted into the Linux
>> kernel and Toolchain (gcc, glibc and friends).
>>
>> Alpha release of libtool is available at following location
>> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.gz (1.6MB)
>> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.xz (920KB)
>>
>> It would be great if you can install this new libtool which supports
>> ppc64le,
>> and spin the pkg and let us know the new tar availability. We can test
>> it on ppc64le architecture for you.
>>
>> With newer version of libtool installed, I would not have to send any of
>> the patches.
>> Please let me know if it is possible?
> Sure. I can give it a try, but only after I get back from vacation (so
> Dec. 2nd and up). Would that be ok?
>
> Tomek
>
> p.s.
> Have you had a chance to check whether BIND10 (that features DNS, but
> also DHCPv4 and DHCPv6) compiles and runs on your platform? See
> http://bind10.isc.org. This is a software still under heavy development,
> but it would be great if it could run on ppc64le. Dibbler is my personal
> hobby project, so I can only devote limited time to it. BIND10 on the
> other hand, is a large project run be a (non-profit) company with many
> engineers.
>
>