Bootstrapping POWER8 Little Endian and Common Pitfalls

There's plenty of add'l howtos for cross bootstrapping Linux on the LFS site with everything step-by-step and with patches:

Here's the PPC (might be big endian-mode):

http://www.clfs.org/view/CLFS-3.0.0-SYSTEMD/ppc/

I'd be curious to have some benchmarks to see how Power compares to X86.

According to IBM their architecture is miles ahead Intel, but there's never a real world bench to prove it's not just marketing.