Re: Architecture baseline for Forky

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 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
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 from
> > 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
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