Has anyone ported Slackware over for the POWER9?

Originally Posted by Richard Cranium If you've already been reading https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...11-4175560702/ , then I'll apologize for wasting your time. You may read that thread and still think that I've wasted your time. If so, mention it here and I'll eventually come back and apologize.

I have read through it a few times.

I tried doing a cross compiler at first, and attempted to try from scratch, but became overly annoyed with it.

Found it was much quicker to use Debian to bootstrap the process instead.
A bit hacky, but went much quicker.

Sorry to not been of any help then.

Originally Posted by Richard Cranium Sorry to not been of any help then.

No need to feel sorry for trying to help.


I've been reading through a lot of threads discussing trying to port Slackware to different architectures.
Its helped to find scripts from Alien Bob and Patrick to piece together a passable manual process to setup a mirror.

Each bit of info can be helpful.

I just updated a bunch of packages to bring it closer to being in sync with Slackware64.
Its still behind a little bit, as I was working from a sync I did last month, working on syncing a copy of latest -current to find out whats new since then.

After getting QT 5.15 built and installed Krita finally works.
Its no longer hanging at the splash screen.

I also managed to get patches working to build QT4.



I've been toying with building a PowerPC 32-bit little endian cross compiler, it works (at least says it does).
The Linux kernel doesn't give the option to build a PowerPC 32-bit LE kernel, that I've seen.
There are some patches from a while back to add support for it though.
So might see if I can bring that abomination unto the world for fun.