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I think ppc64le would become popular, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ppc64. |
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1. enable porting x86 Linux based application with minimal effort. |
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2. Some PowerPC user, little endian apparently feels cheap, wrong, and |
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PCish. |
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3. Other distrbutions like Ubuntu, Redhat and SUSE already support little |
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endian in powerpc. |
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*Leno Hou* |
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E-mail : lenohou@×××××.com |
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:49 PM, James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 17:22:21 +0800 |
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> Leno Hou <lenohou@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Please let me know forward/steps to port gentoo on ppc64le. |
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> I'm not on the ppc team but I do some ppc(64) testing for Java |
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> packages. Although these are relatively well-maintained keywords |
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> overall, I think the team would struggle to cope with an additional |
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> one. It's also important to note that while ppc and ppc64 can be tested |
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> on the same hardware, I think ppc64le would require different hardware? |
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> If ppc64le does become popular then I would suggest that we drop 32-bit |
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> ppc first. Others may disagree though. :) |
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> James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer |
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