On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:00:17PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > 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.
Well they are reasonable as build machines. Having enough ram is important. Still compared to a 3.7GHz 6 core 64bit IBM powerpc, they are not fast. > 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. Yeah I never did like freescale's build methods. It's a mess. Well if there are enough people actually using them I hope the port can find the developers it needs to keep going. I don't see much future in the architecture as far as new CPUs is concerned. Making regular powerpc designs just seems to make a lot more sense. -- Len Sorensen -- 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/20120917212231.gh23...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
