"Debian 8 ppc64 - Power8" is not Debian "ppc64"

[stefanor]

The public image "Debian 8 ppc64 - Power8" is not the Debian "ppc64" architecture, but rather the 32-bit "powerpc" architecture, with a 64-bit kernel. This is not clear from the title or description.

That's also no longer a supported release or architecture, so to use it at all, you have to change the APT sources.

I was able to create a real sid "ppc64" image using this ISO.
minicloud doesn't seem to give me a storage device when I boot from an ISO, so I had to do it locally with Qemu and upload to minicloud.
Note: yaboot is broken with current ext4, so grub-ieee1275 needs to be used.

As an unofficial (ports) architecture, there are no stable releases, only unstable & experimental.
Anyone wanting to use something like this would probably need to immediately dist-upgrade to the latest unstable.
I think this would still be a useful image to provide, for anyone wanting to experiment on big-endian POWER.
My image is: c973b77f-20d8-49d5-a655-02a379965514, if anyone is interested. And it has a typo in the apt sources (the deb-src line should be using /debian/).

[rpsene]

@lcnzg is this something you could try in the next couple of days?

[stefanor]

FWIW, my minicloud account has now expired, so that image is presumably gone.

[rpsene]

@lcnzg could you check if we have the snapshot available? If not, could you allocate someone to learn from @stefanor how to get a new image done?