On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:35:20PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Yeah, apparently it's cheaper to bootstrap a complete new little endian
> platform than to fix portability issues in existing software...
I believe a big reason is that Nvidia cards expect little endian data,
and the overhead of
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> Recent traffic on this list has discussed Debian on PowerPC and
> big-endian vs little-endian.
>
> The next-generation US national laboratory facilities are to be based
> on PowerPC, and one source that I read mentioned little-endian, li
Recent traffic on this list has discussed Debian on PowerPC and
big-endian vs little-endian.
The next-generation US national laboratory facilities are to be based
on PowerPC, and one source that I read mentioned little-endian, likely
for binary file compatibility with files produced on Intel x86 a
On 2016-06-20 10:29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 06/20/2016 04:15 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 04:11:32PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
Well, we just did a full archive rebuild of "ppc64" to be able to
support ppc64 on the e5500 cores by disabling AltiVe
On 06/20/2016 04:15 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 04:11:32PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Well, we just did a full archive rebuild of "ppc64" to be able to
>> support ppc64 on the e5500 cores by disabling AltiVec, didn't we?
>
> Well it is getting there.
The
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 04:11:32PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Well, we just did a full archive rebuild of "ppc64" to be able to
> support ppc64 on the e5500 cores by disabling AltiVec, didn't we?
Well it is getting there.
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Len Sorensen
On 06/20/2016 04:05 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Also I suspect many users of 64 bit capable freescale chips
> (e5500 and e6500 cores) are running 32 bit powerpc since they
> don't have enough ram to actually really gain anything
> from going to 64 bit, and the ppc64 port isn't done yet.
Well, we
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 08:35:02PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Do they implement the ISA required by the existing Debian port?
Yes.
The only ones that don't are the Freescale 85xx and P10[12]x chips,
which are powerpcspe due to using the e500 core.
All the 83xx and 82xx chips which are still
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