On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 11:07:43PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > 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.
Yes, but I get the impression that "pretty good" is not considered good enough for a release architecture. Whatever, powerpc had toolchain bugs that had been highlighted for a number of months, that were holding it back and that had no evidence of a fix forthcoming at the time it was kicked out. While I was disappointed by the decision, I nevertheless think it was dropped out on a well justified basis and could not complain. > Overall, 32-bit PowerPC is basically on par with 32-bit > MIPS(el) which is still a release architecture. Having said the above, I do not deny that there does seem to be some inequity in applying the standards, but I don't see much point in getting into discussions down that track. > 64-bit PowerPC (big-endian) is nearly on par with the little-endian port, So what? This discussion is about 32-bit powerpc. Cheers, Michael.
