Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

In addition to the debian powerpc mailing list, powerpc users are active on the Ubuntu forums.  I'm running Debian Sid on a Powerbook and everything works except 3D acceleration.  I don't see a need to drop it.

Regards,

Dan

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On Thu, 6/16/16, Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification
 To: "Hector Oron" <[email protected]>
 Cc: "Niels Thykier" <[email protected]>, "DSA" <[email protected]>, "Debian Security Team" <[email protected]>, "debian-release" <[email protected]>, [email protected], "Debian Wanna-Build Team" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
 Date: Thursday, June 16, 2016, 12:04 AM
 
 Hi Hector,
 
 On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:12
 AM, Hector Oron <[email protected]>
 wrote:
 [...]
 > While
 working out ArchitectureQualification/Stretch wiki page I
 > believe everything is mostly fine for
 release, however I got a
 > personal
 concern on powerpc architecture. Is it well maintained?
 Does
 > it have porters? Does it have
 users? Does it still make sense to carry
 > along?
 [...]
 
 The [email protected]
 mailing list is active so I would say it
 still has some users. I have been using
 partch.d.o for doing some work
 on PowerPC. I
 posted a summary of work people have been doing on this
 port lately:
 
 https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2016/06/msg00046.html
 
 However I do agree that true
 PowerPC hardware is actually
 disappearing,
 and it is alive mostly thanks to being an ABI using
 32bits integer for PPC64 CPU(s).
 
 -M