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Hi Michael, |
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On 11-02-2017 19:59:23 +0100, Michael Weiser wrote: |
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> Hi Fabian, |
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> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 08:50:38PM +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> > ppc-macos |
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> > ppc-macos is a hard one for me personally, it's the first Prefix arch |
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> > ever, but I'm not aware of anyone having such machine. I'm considering |
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> I have a couple of iBook G4s sitting around and wanted to get |
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> llvm/clang-3.4+ going on them. But realistically, that effort is stalled |
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> and not likely to be revived. |
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> Dropping ppc-macos would greatly simplify the binutils-apple package by |
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> removing those huge, pet-project ppc-support restoration patches I |
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> introduced. The 8.0/8.1 update is pending anyways - I have preliminary |
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> ebuilds olocally and got stuck in updating exactly those PPC patches. |
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> BTW: Is there an OS X version support cutoff for x86/x64-macos? I'd |
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> guess, no one is really running 10.4/10.5 on Intel hardware any more, or |
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> is there? |
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I acquired two powermac G5s, one quad core (the latest/fastest ever |
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made) another with a single 1.8GHz core. Both have 6GB+ RAM. I'm |
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planning to put them into play, with the option of opening up to others |
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to try/work on them. Let me know if you're interested, at the moment |
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they are not online yet. |
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That said, I considered weeding the profiles, and only support 10.5 |
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(Darwin 9) for ppc (maybe ppc64), and keep the last 3 or 4 releases for |
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Intel. Realistically speaking noone is testing the older editions any |
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more because Apple is insisting on upgrading. |
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Thanks, |
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Fabian |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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