On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:41:55 GMT, Volkan Yazici <vyaz...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This list is also _not_ about Fedora devkit, and the PR is about Fedora 
>> devkit, so we are doing unrelated work here, regardless if it makes sense or 
>> not :) So yes, I prefer to keep it.
>> 
>>> I think all our ppc64 code assumes le by now, so even if we could get a 
>>> sysroot for ppc64be to work, I doubt it will do much good for the JDK.
>> 
>> I believe Zero is still fine with BE. 
>> 
>> Anyhow, we are doing these cross-compilation instructions largely to support 
>> the poor souls who are tasked with maintaining the unusual ports. So if 
>> Debian PPC64 BE port is alive, which I think it is, that would mean they 
>> build OpenJDK, that would mean they build _some_ PPC64BE config, whether 
>> Zero (more likely) or Server (unlikely, as it is probably broken).
>
> Introduced it back in 69344b10.

> I think all our ppc64 code assumes le by now, so even if we could get a 
> sysroot for ppc64be to work, I doubt it will do much good for the JDK.

FYI, and completely irrelevant for this PR, but AIX is still ppcbe. The only 
big endian platform left.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26821#discussion_r2285532131

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