# Re: PA6T little endian mode: ppc64le kernels possible?

- From: Christian Zigotzky \<hidden\>
- Date: 2018-11-12 07:13:25 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2018/11/9507179
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2018/11/9507179/t.md

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On 10 November 2018 at 8:20PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
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> On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 00:55 Christian Zigotzky [ref] wrote:
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>     Hi All,
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>     I read the following:
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>     The part that is debatably the heart of the chip is a PowerPC core called the PA6T, a full blown 64-bit PPC with an FPU, VMX extensions and hypervisor support. It fully conforms to the PowerPC 2.04 architecture spec, and can operate in both big and little-endian modes.
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>     —-
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>     Is it possible to boot a ppc64le kernel on the PA6T?
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> Nobody has done the work to get the kernel to work in little endian on these platforms. I wouldn't expect it to work without quite a bit of effort.
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> -Olof


Thank you for your answer.
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