On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 01:10:58AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > Piotr is the one spending most times on ensuring FreeBSD ports work > fine on POWER, so personally I'm happy to follow his recommendation > on such matters.
I have a question though: > -/* Until now the 970 is the only Processor where FreeBSD 64-bit runs on. */ > #undef PROCESSOR_DEFAULT > -#define PROCESSOR_DEFAULT PROCESSOR_POWER4 > +#define PROCESSOR_DEFAULT PROCESSOR_PPC7450 > #undef PROCESSOR_DEFAULT64 > -#define PROCESSOR_DEFAULT64 PROCESSOR_POWER4 > +#define PROCESSOR_DEFAULT64 PROCESSOR_POWER8 Is this wise? Binaries won't run on many BE systems anymore with this. (Linux still uses Power4 by default for BE, as well). In either case: yes, whatever you guys decide here is fine. Also for all backports you want. Thanks! Segher
