On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 07:30:55PM +0000, Kurt Stine wrote: > I agree, there's no reason to penalize normal ppc users with the patch. It's > why I'm suggesting a separate port/repo with Espresso SMP support.
Well someone would have to build and maintain it. It seems hard enough to even get that for powerpc and ppc64, never mind a really niche platform. I wonder if there would be a way to scan the existing binaries looking for the instruction to see if some packages might be able to be used without rebuilding. Might not be very many though given probably any code with threads in it would be affected. I must admit today was the first time I had even heard of linux running on the Wii U. I knew it had a powerpc chip in it, but I figured nintendo likes to lock down their hardware. -- Len Sorensen
