Hi, On 01/14/2014 09:18 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Hmm. What _is_ powerpcspe, anyway? I mean, I don't know architecture > details anyway, but what it is for Debian? It does not look like an > official debian architecture.
powerpcspe is basically powerpc without floating point registers nor AltiVec. However, it does floating point in the regular (integer) GPRs in an incompatible / overlapping instruction set. Therefore, incompatible. It needs to be re-compiled and maintained as a separate architecture. See https://wiki.debian.org/PowerPCSPEPort > If we start adding unofficial arches, what about other architectures missing? Besides the official Debian architectures, debian-ports.org (run by Debian Developers also) provides some additional unofficial architectures, including powerpcspe, ppc64, alpha, sparc64 etc. We don't support them officially as debian.org, but accept wishlist bugs that improve support for debian-ports.org architectures. Some of them eventually become official Debian architectures in the future. Some of them are previously official architectures like hppa and m68k. > I'll add powerpcspe, but I just want to understand. Fine, thanks! > Besides, I for one can't support it in any way, so any bugs/issues in > there are "yours" (for some definition of "you", -- maybe as users for > non-official ports). I'm maintaining powerpcspe as a port. However, mostly using standard Debian source packages for this which works fine, basically. Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
