On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 03:58:57PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Yes, math emulation should just work on 32-Bit PowerPC. > > There is no other option at this point unless one wants to invest time and > effort to build Debian for powerpcspe with LLVM/Clang. > > Also, as already mentioned in the other mail, the driver support for A1222 > was never upstreamed.
Wow, that's even worse than I expected. > Yeah, that CPU was an unfortunate choice given that Linux support for > it was lacking as well. > > One option is to install FreeBSD which is currently supported on A1222: > > See: https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc/#hardware I remember quite a few years ago where I worked at the time, freescale suggested we move to that CPU from the 8360 we were using, and I told them in no uncertain terms what I thought of their powerpc spe and that we would never be using it. Software compatibility was too important. We moved to ARM instead. If we had to move of powerpc it would be to something with a future, not a dead end offshoot of powerpc. We ended up as one of the first users of the TI AM5728 instead. We looked at the layerscape powerpc chips, but the power consumption was too high unfortunately for the design needed. -- Len Sorensen
