Re: Debian ppc64 (BE) installer shows Little Endian on P10

Hi Trupti,

On Fri, 2026-08-14 at 15:24 +0530, Trupti wrote:
> I have installed Debian ppc64 (BigEndian) on p10 using the ports 
> snapshot ISO 
> (https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2026-06-12/) but 
> after installation it still shows Little Endian.

What exactly do you mean? Where does it show "little endian"?

It works fine for me:

root@debian-project-be-1:~# uname -a
Linux debian-project-be-1 7.1.7+deb14-powerpc64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 7.1.7-1 (2026-08-07) ppc64 GNU/Linux
root@debian-project-be-1:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep ^cpu
cpu             : POWER9 (architected), altivec supported
cpu             : POWER9 (architected), altivec supported
cpu             : POWER9 (architected), altivec supported
cpu             : POWER9 (architected), altivec supported
cpu             : POWER9 (architected), altivec supported
cpu             : POWER9 (architected), altivec supported
cpu             : POWER9 (architected), altivec supported
cpu             : POWER9 (architected), altivec supported
root@debian-project-be-1:~# file /usr/bin/bash
/usr/bin/bash: ELF 64-bit MSB pie executable, 64-bit PowerPC or cisco 7500, Power ELF V1 ABI, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld64.so.1,
BuildID[sha1]=32c386c4363d9c315c07c3b638fe02c5f71d67e0, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped
root@debian-project-be-1:~#

Adrian

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