On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 05:04:48PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I had to re-read this several times and just to be clear: You can still > run big-endian code perfectly fine on POWER8 machines and newer (unless > IBM removed support with POWER10).
You can, but it seems very few people do. I have not read anything to indicate they were getting rid of big endian support. Hopefully not. > In fact, we are running the little-endian port on the POWER8 server we got > from IBM to host two ppc64 big-endian KVM VMs (one buildd and one Debian > porterbox). Although that causes the host kernel to crash regularly with > no fix in sight yet, unfortunately [1]. Ouch, that's annoying given they claim that is supposed to work just fine. -- Len Sorensen
