On 01/26/16 05:36, Karel Gardas wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Nick Holland > <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote: >> Meanwhile, there ARE platforms that are still borderline useful. >> MacPPC, Sparc64 need people to RUN them for real life work, and improve >> them for relevancy, as naddy@ said. > > Another elephant in this thread: would armv8 running in big-endian > mode with strict alignment checking switched on be kind of possible > replacement for sparc64 from testing perspective?
Make a port to an armv8 platform, make it far better than our existing armv7 support is currently, and let's find out. But it has to be so good that that people will put it into production. Otherwise (or if it doesn't get done), not much value. Nick.
