well...this is quite interesting, even for use on Power7 servers ... I have several clients that use Debian on P7 and P6 .... so, having a compilation that uses the latest CPU instructions, would be interesting
Alexandre S. Bencz
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On 25/10/2020 15:14, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello Carlos! On 10/25/20 6:49 PM, Carlos Rodrigues wrote:Newer servers, such as Power8 and Power9 support BE operating systems, including Debian ... the problem is that Debian PPC64 is compiled to be compatible with older servers (power4 standard), it is possible to generate a release of Debian PPC64 BE, using Power8 standards (I mean newer instructions)?Yes, that would be possible, of course. One could use rebootstrap [1] for that, for example. However, I'm not sure what would be the point of having a ppc64be distribution with POWER8 instructions as most POWER8 software is provided for the little-endian ports anyway such that most users who want a big-endian port use that for Apple G5 systems or the newer Amiga One X5000(?) systems. Adrian[1] https://wiki.debian.org/HelmutGrohne/rebootstrap
