On 4/21/20 10:59 PM, Michael Cree wrote: > My personal observations of the public discussions of the Debian > Release and DSA teams is that serious concerns were raised about > both the appearance of a lack of upstream toolchain support and the > continued absence of Debian Porters for the powerpc port despite > that fact being raised in this very forum.
To be fair, toolchain support for 32-bit PowerPC has always been pretty good with a few bugs here and there and most PowerPC stuff, even the 32-bit parts, is maintained by IBM employees. >From my knowledge, they even have PowerMacs available where they test kernel changes. Overall, 32-bit PowerPC is basically on par with 32-bit MIPS(el) which is still a release architecture. 64-bit PowerPC (big-endian) is nearly on par with the little-endian port, with a few exceptions here and there. Even OpenJDK JIT is still supported there and Golang. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
