Thanks for the answer!
On 03/21/23 Lionel Élie Mamane wrote:
Would a live BE<->LE translation be so different?
I thin so, yes.
So it would seem. I get it now, it would have a very deep impact on
performance.
I'd rather have a slower but working emulated LE system than a in
theory faster
On 03/22/23 Paul Wise wrote:
I was under the impression that POWER CPUs do *both* BE and LE at the
same time, with each process able to start in either BE or LE mode.
Perhaps thats a feature of IBM POWER CPUs and not NXP ones though?
I only know that POWER started to be LE since the POWER8. P
On 03/22/23 Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
I was looking at those projects in the past, but there are two problems:
1. They are way too expensive in terms of a performance to price ratio.
2. They are getting way too less support to make that extra investment
worthwhile.
you just neatly summaris
On Wednesday, March 22, 2023, Linux User #330250
wrote:
> On the other hand, I don't really see performant and cheap (for desktop
> systems) systems on the market that aren't mainstream x86 (Intel and
> AMD). Letting those now older alternatives go (that were mostly servers
> to begin with) is pr
On 03/22/23 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
thus we (RED, Libre-SOC) are "on the clock" with a limited
window of opportunity to stop that from happening.
You mean devs dropping certain architectures?
IMHO when there are no systems in numbers on the market, support is
going to be like those
Hi,
Lionel Élie Mamane wrote:
> Thanks for the link, interesting and I didn't know about this one
> indeed. Beyond "not available this year", I see the one-but least FAQ
> https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/faq/
> says that it won't run a "modern distro" in little-endian mode, as
> "although it does
Hi,
Didier Kryn wrote:
> Another concern is that a software which does run only on one single
> endianness proves to be buggy and loosely written. High level software
> such as Firefox should be independant of such considerations, exactly as
> it should not rely on internal details of the impl
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