Re: Architecture baseline for Forky

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What's more we at Power Progress Community Odv not profit association thanks to the many donations have realized in 2022 prototypes ( not production ready due to a boot problem) of a notebook based on NXP T2080 PPC64 processor ( only Big Endian with Altivec, work with little endian but without Altivec so no PPC64el compilant) and now In October will produce new dekstop prototypes based with the same NXP T2080 PPC64 processor now with, redesigned in part from the NXP devkit and revised by NXP itself, so this time we expect to go in production by the end of the 2026. So in 2027 we will have users with new PPC64 computers.

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On lug 26 2026, at 11:41 am, Stuart MacIntosh <[email protected]> wrote:
> FWIW I've been using sid/forky on POWER4 and it seems fine. The Apple
> Xserve G5 specifically.
>
> Just want to mention there are users affected by dropping support for
> the big endian PPC64. Yes it's old but the baseline supports even older
> Intels so there's a kind of discrepancy here.
>
> PPC64 hardware is surely not as common as ARM and Intel but I notice
> support for archs with even lower production volumes like the s390x. I
> would be grateful if the baseline could be more 'data driven' regarding
> the amount of serviceable hardware out there (these old Power PCs are
> unstoppable).
>
> Just my $0.02 -- thanks
> On 27/10/2025 01:21, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > ## ppc64el
> >
> > * POWER8: Launched in 2014[^power8].
> > * POWER9: Launched in 2017[^power9]. Used in RedHat 9[^redhat9] and
> > 10[^redhat10].
>


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<div>What's more we at Power Progress Community Odv not profit associatio=
n thanks to the many donations have realized in 2022 prototypes ( not pro=
duction ready due to a boot problem) of a notebook based on NXP T2080 PPC=
64 processor ( only Big Endian with Altivec, work with little endian but =
without&nbsp; Altivec so no PPC64el compilant) and now In October will pr=
oduce new dekstop prototypes based with the same NXP T2080 PPC64 processo=
r now with, redesigned in part from the NXP devkit and revised by NXP its=
elf, so this time we expect to go in production by the end of the 2026. S=
o in&nbsp; 2027&nbsp; we will have users with new PPC64 computers.</div><=
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ion=22>On lug 26 2026, at 11:41 am, Stuart MacIntosh &lt;stuart=40macinto=
sh.nz&gt; wrote:</div><blockquote spellcheck=3D=22false=22><div><div>=46W=
IW I've been using sid/forky on POWER4 and it seems fine. The Apple</div>=
<div>Xserve G5 specifically.</div><br><div>Just want to mention there are=
 users affected by dropping support for</div><div>the big endian PPC64. Y=
es it's old but the baseline supports even older</div><div>Intels so ther=
e's a kind of discrepancy here.</div><br><div>PPC64 hardware is surely no=
t as common as ARM and Intel but I notice</div><div>support for archs wit=
h even lower production volumes like the s390x. I</div><div>would be grat=
eful if the baseline could be more 'data driven' regarding</div><div>the =
amount of serviceable hardware out there (these old Power PCs are</div><d=
iv>unstoppable).</div><br><div>Just my =240.02 -- thanks</div><br><div>On=
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v><div>&gt;</div><div>&gt; * POWER8: Launched in 2014=5B=5Epower8=5D.</di=
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