Re: Architecture baseline for Forky

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Power8 EOS is 2024 Oct and it is far away from the retrocomputing system.
Kindly reconsider Power8 as a baseline and I believe there are
infrastructures running on P8.


Thanks,
Kiruthika NV



On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 2:16=E2=80=AFPM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68=
k.org>
wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 at 01:16, Jan-Daniel Kaplanski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Besides, the armhf baseline of armv7-a+fp aligns with the Cortex-A8 fro=
m
> > 2005[2]. I highly doubt that archaic architecture has a lot of users
> > besides SBCs up to the generation of RPi 2 and legacy embedded systems
> > that are likely EOL too. Especially since aarch64 came in 2012 with
> > armv8-a on the Cortex-A53/A57[3][4].
>
> BeagleBone Black/Industrial/Green/... and variants are still being sold.
>
> 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
>
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Power8 EOS is 2024 Oct and it is far away from the retroco=
mputing system. Kindly reconsider Power8 as a baseline and I believe there =
are infrastructures running on P8.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks=
,</div><div>Kiruthika NV<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><=
div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"g=
mail_attr">On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 2:16=E2=80=AFPM Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;<=
a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<=
br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8e=
x;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,2=
04,204);padding-left:1ex">On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 at 01:16, Jan-Daniel Kaplansk=
i &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">jd.kaplanski=
@aol.de</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; Besides, the armhf baseline of armv7-a+fp aligns with the Cortex-A8 fr=
om<br>
&gt; 2005[2]. I highly doubt that archaic architecture has a lot of users<b=
r>
&gt; besides SBCs up to the generation of RPi 2 and legacy embedded systems=
<br>
&gt; that are likely EOL too. Especially since aarch64 came in 2012 with<br=
>
&gt; armv8-a on the Cortex-A53/A57[3][4].<br>
<br>
BeagleBone Black/Industrial/Green/... and variants are still being sold.<br=
>
<br>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,<br>
<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=
=A0 =C2=A0 Geert<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There&#39;s lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- <a href=3D"m=
ailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a><br>
<br>
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. Bu=
t<br>
when I&#39;m talking to journalists I just say &quot;programmer&quot; or so=
mething like that.<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=
=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 -- Linus Torvalds<br>
<br>
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