Re: What's the plan for powerpc64 in FreeBSD 16

Marco Moock <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:25:50 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.architechture
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On 10.02.2026 00:45 Minsoo Choo <[email protected]> wrote:

> And this is industry trend. The only ppc manufacturer for POSIX
> platforms, IBM, has been moving away from ppc64be. Major Linux
> distros, including developed by IBM subsidiary RedHat, only offer
> ppc64le binaries (RedHat and clones, CentOS, Fedora, SUSE, etc). Many
> drivers assume that the host is running on little-endian, so those
> drivers fail to work on big-endian systems. ppc64be is poorly
> maintained and tested across many OSes and I don't see why we should
> continue supporting it when there is no benefit.

The IBM POWER systems support switching between big-endian and
little-endian. IBM AIX runs on be, RHEL or SUSE run on le.

Is there any reason not to run FreeBSD in le too?

-- 
kind regards
Marco

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