Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification
"Lennart Sorensen" <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:35:20PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Yeah, apparently it's cheaper to bootstrap a complete new little endian > platform than to fix portability issues in existing software... I believe a big reason is that Nvidia cards expect little endian data, and the overhead of converting between the host and the nvidia cards is big enough to matter. power8+ and power9 will have nvlink connections on the CPU for a reason after all.