Lennart, Thanks for more information. I can check with Freescale running little endian on e6500.
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 07:16:50AM -0600, Sandeep G.R wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Sandeep G.R wrote: > > > > > > > I have a sid PPC64 from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports > running on > > > > Freescale Powerpc. Is their PPC64(Big-Endian) for Jessie similarly? > > > > > > The PPC64 port didn't get added to jessie, if you want jessie you'll > > > need to switch to ppc64el. If you want PPC64 big-endian, stick to > > > debian-ports unstable. Some info about the port is here: > > > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/PPC64 > > > > > > -- > > > bye, > > > pabs > > > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > > > > > > > Thanks Paul. I guess ppc64el is for only IBM power8 machines not for > > Freescale powerpc right. > > Well I have only heard of it running on power8 (and I think as a guest > in a VM on a power7 if I recall correctly). > > Since my understanding of the purpose of ppc64el is to make exchanging > data with nvidia cards more efficient (since they are designed for little > endian data), and you probably aren't doing that with the freescale chips, > the ppc64el probably doesn't serve any purpose for the freescale chips. > > Of course I am not even sure running 64bit userspace serves much purpose > for most uses either. Is there really anything gained running 64bit > powerpc userspace in general? > > According to what I have read, the freescale e6500 can run little endian, > except the altivec bit can not, which rather ruins the use in little > endian mode. > > -- > Len Sorensen > -- *Thanks & Regards,* *Sandeep G R*
