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OK, it works: http://sthbrx.github.io/blog/2015/06/03/ppc64le-hello-on-rea...

It does at least boot to Hello OPAL and the menu. Having some trouble interacting with it, but that could equally be IPMI. Will do a blog post and send you the link :)

It makes porting non-endian-aware software much easier. If you've written software that, for example, serialises data to disk, or sends and receives it over the network, and you haven't specifically coded for it, you can get a bit of a shock when you change endians.

Cool! I work at IBM with POWER, so I'm trying to get that to run on real hardware now --- I'll let you know how I go.