Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification
Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Nelson H. F. Beebe <[email protected]> wrote: > Recent traffic on this list has discussed Debian on PowerPC and > big-endian vs little-endian. > > The next-generation US national laboratory facilities are to be based > on PowerPC, and one source that I read mentioned little-endian, likely > for binary file compatibility with files produced on Intel x86 and > x86-64 CPUs: see Yeah, apparently it's cheaper to bootstrap a complete new little endian platform than to fix portability issues in existing software... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [email protected] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds