Στις 06-10-2015, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 14:47 -0400, ο/η Lennart Sorensen έγραψε: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 02:49:13PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: > > It seems a new a new 4-core 64-bits PPC laptop is coming. It will > > be using a > > Freescale e6500 processor. > > > > http://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/ > > > > This processor is based on V2.06 ISA, but it is still not clear for > > me if only > > PPC64 is supported, or, if ppc64el might run on these machines. > > The ABI for ppc64el says it requires V2.07 or higher. > > Freescale says the e6500 is V2.06, while wikipedia lists the e6500 in > the V2.07 article as compatible. > > I can't find enough details to see if it has the VSX instructions > required. > > Altivec does not run little endian, but vsx does.
(CC'ing the founder of the project, Roberto ) As I'm actually one of the people involved in my spare time in the project, the truth is in the middle. It can run little-endian code, but it does not have VSX, and its Altivec unit does not operate in little -endian mode, so without VSX it would make much software incompatible. So even if we could get it to run ppc64el on it, it would be sans -Altivec optimizations. The choice so far is to go for the ppc64 port in Debian. Regards Konstantinos
