On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:25:49PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > at all because they are not standard powerpc compatible. We like being > able to use an IBM p710 as a native build machine, and the powerpcspe > has no fast machines at all that you can build natively on and there > probably never will be.
8572 and P2020 are dual cores / SMP. They _are_ fast and support more than 4GiB of memory. They play in the performance league. MPC512x are the slow ones. I built the port on _one_ 8536 and the buildd was mostly wating for me not the other way around (except for gcc or openoffice :P). Kyle then hooked a couple of other buildds for a rebuild of our 90% of the archive and we managed to rebuild in less than a day. Without his buildd it would take about five days on my 8572. There is nothing wrong with the CPU. The FPU is non-standard but defined power.org. Would they bring some Desktops (I have S3 GPU via PCIe on one of my machines) then they would be probably more people which are willing to play with a distro. The problem is that FSL is pushing for their own building system instead of using something sane like Debian. While their system works for something small it does not scale. Scale means not only huge amount of packages (like gnome's deps) but also to keep up with up-to date packages in terms of stable (working) and security fixes. Sebastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120917210017.ga5...@breakpoint.cc
