On Sun, 2025-09-21 at 06:10 +0000, WHR wrote: > > On Sat, 2025-09-20 at 19:33 -0300, Leo Historias wrote: > > > Baseline for PPC is G3,PPC64 is G5...unless i'm right... > > > > No, the baseline for the ppc64 is not G5 but G5 without AltiVec. > > That's POWER4.
You're probably right. I used that weird naming scheme as I was never 100% sure what the various baselines are. POWER is really complicated with many different architecture baselines with and without AltiVec and so on. While one can be sure that any reasonably recent x86 CPU supports some form of MMX or SSE, there are many even recent PowerPC CPUs that don't support AltiVec. I never really understood that design decision by IBM and Freescale. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
