Le 21/06/2018 à 09:12, Jaromil a écrit :
dear Adam,
On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, Adam Borowski wrote:
x86 on the other hand has variable size of opcodes, 1 to 15 bytes.
This, by the way, is the biggest flaw of x86 instruction set: the
rules to split code into opcodes are extremely hairy, requiring all
the decoding work to be done twice if you want a pipeline.
Wholeheartedly agreeing with you here.
Sorry if I interrupd (nice thread!) but couldn't resist to nod louder.
Yes, but Devuan is only available for amd64, i386 and Arm!
The reason, of course is that Powerpc (which is a much more modern
arch) isn't supported anymore even by Debian as an official arch. This
is due in part to the fact that Powerpc has exploded into a large set of
incompatible arches, and in part to the lack of powerpc-based computers
available to the general public.
If there was an affordable Powerpc-based desktop, no doubt this one
would be supported. But Freescale focusses on industrial SBCs and IBM on
big servers, and not only do they steadily diverge, but both have
incompatible arches within their own set of products.
Didier
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