Re: Architecture baseline for Forky

FWIW I've been using sid/forky on POWER4 and it seems fine. The Apple 
Xserve G5 specifically.

Just want to mention there are users affected by dropping support for 
the big endian PPC64. Yes it's old but the baseline supports even older 
Intels so there's a kind of discrepancy here.

PPC64 hardware is surely not as common as ARM and Intel but I notice 
support for archs with even lower production volumes like the s390x. I 
would be grateful if the baseline could be more 'data driven' regarding 
the amount of serviceable hardware out there (these old Power PCs are 
unstoppable).

Just my $0.02 -- thanks

On 27/10/2025 01:21, Bastian Blank wrote:
> ## ppc64el
>
> * POWER8: Launched in 2014[^power8].
> * POWER9: Launched in 2017[^power9]. Used in RedHat 9[^redhat9] and
>    10[^redhat10].