Re: Architecture baseline for Forky

Gerardo Ballabio <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
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If I understand correctly, the rationale for not supporting power8 is this:

Bastian Blank wrote:
> ## ppc64el
> ```
> % /usr/lib64/ld64.so.2 --help | sed -n '/^Subdirectories of glibc-hwcaps/,$p'
> Subdirectories of glibc-hwcaps directories, in priority order:
>   power10
>   power9 (supported, searched)
> ```

I read that as meaning that power9 is supported by the current
toolchain, while power8 is not. Please correct me if I am wrong.

So this isn't about "dropping" support for power8, it's about
"restoring" it. As usual, Debian is a doocracy: we can do that if
somebody commits to do that.

Gerardo
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