On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 08:08:29PM +0200, Erik Brangs wrote: > Thanks for the hints, but those machines use 64-bit processors or 32-bit > processors with SPE. I would need a 32-bit PPC with FPU, preferably with > multiple cores. The projects that I'm interested in are related to code > generation so the hardware details are important to me. I wouldn't need > graphics but I'd need networking and enough memory and disk space to do > builds. For example, the machine would need to be capable of building > something like GCC.
64 bit CPU is fine running 32 bit userspace. I have run IBM power6 and power7 machines with Debian powerpc, with 64bit kernel and 32 bit userspace. Works great. Used it as a build machine for 32 bit powerpc devices. > I can test on PPC 64-bit using the GCC compile farm which provides access to > shared machines for free software developers. They have IBM POWER7 and POWER8 > server class machines (i.e. 64-bit Big Endian and 64-bit Little Endian). A 32bit chroot of debian on a 64bit powerpc works fine. linux32 works on powerpc too to make it look like a smaller cpu. -- Len Sorensen
