POWER10

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IBM POWER10 Functional Simulator

Debian

• Download the Debian virtual machine, in qcow2 format: 64-bit Little Endian PowerPC (qcow2)
• Install QEMU for PowerPC
• Start the virtual machine with the qcow image

pacman -S qemu-system-ppc

qemu-system-ppc64 -nographic -smp 6 -m 3G debian-12-nocloud-ppc64el.qcow2

• Once in the VM, create a privileged user account

useradd -m nickname
passwd nickname
nano /etc/sudoers.d/01_first

nickname ALL=(ALL) ALL

• Install the kernel development packages

sudo apt-get update
apt-cache search linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo apt install linux-headers-6.1.0-31-powerpc64le
sudo apt install make
sudo apt install gcc
sudo apt install ssh
sudo apt install git

CoreFreq

• Build and Run CoreFreq, alpha preview version for PowerPC

cd
mkdir src
cd src
git clone git@github.com:cyring/CoreFreq.git
make -j

sudo sync; sudo insmod build/corefreqk.ko 
sudo sync; sudo build/corefreqd -q &
./build/corefreq-cli 

jobs
kill %1
sudo rmmod corefreqk