Re: Architecture baseline for Forky

Tony Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
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Yet x86-64 v2 will still be supported, based on the initial email, even when power8 was released during the same time-frame? So power8 is considered retro computing, but not Intel v2? That power8 machine is also more powerful compared to Intel cpus for that time period. Power7 and older I totally understand, but Power8 is still a decent machine.

> On Oct 26, 2025, at 4:59 PM, Marco d'Itri <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Oct 26, Tony Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Why not support power 8 beyond 2028? It is still a good system and supports newer little endian.
> Because that's 15 years and Debian's purpose is not to enable retrocomputing projects.
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> I think that waldi's proposal is quite reasonable.
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> Next year probably we should also talk about RISC-V, when hopefully it will be more clear what hardware will be available.
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> ciao,
> Marco
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