# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.3_rc6 (default-linux/ppc/ppc64/2007.0/64bit-userland/desktop,
gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 ppc64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 ppc64 PPC970FX, altivec supported
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:20:01 +0000
dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils: 2.17.50.0.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc64 ~ppc64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=970 -mtune=970 -maltivec -mabi=altivec
-fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=970 -mtune=970 -maltivec -mabi=altivec
-fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig candy distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox
sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo/
http://prometheus.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo "
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl alsa altivec arts bash-completion bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo
cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode fam firefox
flac gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer hal iconv ieee1394 imlib isdnlog ithreads
jpeg jpeg2k kde libg++ mad midi mikmod mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl
nptlonly ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre perl png ppc64 pppd python qt3support
quicktime readline reflection session spell spl ssl theora threads tiff
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis wma xml xorg xv xvid zlib"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route
share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux"
LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses
text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"
Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I test built this on a ~ppc64 machine. Was successfully able to export block
devices and see them from another (x86) mchine on my lan:
# mac-fdisk -l /dev/nbd1
/dev/nbd1
# type name length base ( size
) system
/dev/nbd11 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 (
31.5k) Partition map
/dev/nbd12 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 64
(800.0k) NewWorld bootblock
/dev/nbd13 Apple_Free 260544 @ 1664
(127.2M) Free space
/dev/nbd14 Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_2 116925293 @ 262208 (
55.8G) HFS
/dev/nbd15 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 2097152 @ 117187501 (
1.0G) Linux swap
/dev/nbd16 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 200888403 @ 119284653 (
95.8G) Linux native
Block size=512, Number of Blocks=320173056
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
I'm testing it more in order to verify its useable, but at least the ndb-shared
devices are seen.