Re: It's Alive! Xeon W-1270P Has Booted!

On 2/16/25 12:36 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:18:51 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:
 

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When I acquire the knowledge to carefully install gentoo on my Xeon
machine, I'll see whether linux can be used with it or not.
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 It'll work.
 However, installing Gentoo is a huge PITA, being almost the same
as installing LFS.
 I do not strictly use Gentoo, but only their automated build
system known as Portage.
 My strategy has always been to clone my existing installations
onto a new machine.  Ideally, this would involve cross compiling
which is another PITA.  But if the new CPU ranks above the old
CPU then a straightforward copy will allow the new machine to
boot with the old software packages.
 In my current case, however, I assumed that the Xeon W-2223
would be identical, except for AVX-512, with the Xeon W-1270P.
However, it is not and the new machine would not boot using
software compiled on the Xeon W-2223.
 I had to fall back to the Core i7 machine to build the software
and in this way the new Xeon W-1270P now boots.  The Core i7 is
"below" the Xeon W-1270P.
 The next step is to use Gentoo Portage to rebuild everything
(i.e. the "world") according to the Xeon W-1270P specs.
 My approach is totally unconventional but it works magnificently.
I eschew both systemd and SysV for booting and use my own boot
scripts (derived from LFS).  Gentoo Portage is used only for
automated building.  Otherwise my systems are not Gentoo.
 I should post my unique GNU/Linux "distro" to GitLab, but
most users are lackeys and would never take notice.
 Yes, my systems are different from any other GNU/Linux
"distro."  I should perhaps create "Farley's Fantastic Linux"
but, as I already indicated, the lackeys would never notice.
   

Go for it. Right now I don't even know what you're talking about. But if I take a step toward finding whether my Xeon computer works with linux then I will have to take that opportunity to delve inside everything about workings of linux. Otherwise it won't be worth the effort, I feel.
I wanted to do this about 2 years ago but got distracted by political events, which are always injected into me each time I video-talk live with folks in Iran.