Re: Planned obsolescence ? (was: Re: Architecture baseline for Forky)

On Tue, 2025-10-28 at 10:07 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 09:59:11AM +0100, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> > Debian isn't Microsoft. Debian isn't Apple. Debian isn't Google.
> > Please don't learn the wrong lessons from them. Planned obsolescence
> > is bad, not good.
> 
> Still, Debian has to rely on stable support in kernel and toolchain.  
> Once kernel and toolchain stop supporting¹ an architecture there is 
> nothing that Debian could do about that with its limited personpower and 
> resources.

POWER8 is still years away from being removed from the kernel and toolchain.

I don't think that anyone at IBM is seriously considering dropping POWER8
support in the kernel or even the toolchain at the moment.

I mean, POWER5 was first announced in 2003 and is still supported by the
Linux kernel and toolchain, so I'm very sure that POWER8 is not going to
go anywhere soon.

Adrian

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