Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification
"Lennart Sorensen" <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 09:04:12AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > 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). There are a lot of 32bit powerpc chips still going into embedded systems being built today. They are not going away anytime soon.