Availability is okay. As long as you're not trying to run a prefix installation from AIX a almost everything should work out of the box. Programs that are heavily optimized may fail due to lack of code paths for POWER8/9 but that is fairly rare.
Toolchain problems are most common. On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 7:04 PM, taii...@gmx.com <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: > It is my understanding that both little and big endian work on the > regular "linux" POWER9 machines so that you can use gentoo which is > ppc64 not ppc64le for some reason - and I was wondering what peoples > experiences are with this? what is package availability like? any > problems? etc etc. > > Thanks! >
