Re: Removing dpkg arch definitions for powerpcspe?

On 2025-09-03 14:27:14 [+0200], John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
Hi Adrian,

> FWIW, LLVM still fully supports powerpcspe, so it's not actually a dead
> end. There is also some interest in the community as several New Amiga
> boards used PowerPCSPE-based CPUs.

Interesting that new e500 based boards are made. It is probably one of
the last available CPUs capable of doing 32bit powerpc.
But reading Amiga I would expect m68k based CPUs not powerpc (especially
this one). Color me surprised.

Anyway. Realistically speaking you would need 8GiB+ of RAM for a buildd
machine and you would need to boostrap the whole port probably from
scratch as of today. But with llvm only. This could be a challenge
already hoping you don't run into any compiler bugs as we did back then.
Oh. glibc. You need a C library and glibc is probably what you want but
	https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=a053e878494080f7070cf92890e546057236c9c9

support has been removed here, too. And kernel support but if it is
p2020 based, it shouldn't be that complicated.

> So, unless it's really necessary to remove it, I would suggest to keep powerpcspe.

This is entirely Guillem, I have obviously no saying in this. Also I
don't want to take a project away from anyone. I just tried to show how
much work is probably needed if anyone wants to bring this back to life.
And two key projects dropped their support.

> Adrian

Sebastian