Re: 2026 TODO list!

On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 at 00:08, Alexey Dokuchaev <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 07:33:49AM -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > hi!
>
> Hey Adrian,
>
> Glad to see you stirring the PPC swamp! :-)
>
> > I'd like to assemble a 2026 TODO list for PPC64 work. Justin, Ivy,
> > Warner, I and and others have been poking at the sharp edges and
> > trying to use/abuse various PPC64 hardware and VMs.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > So I'd like some brainstorming/braindumping/ideas here if you've got
> > them, even on older PPC64 hardware if you have it. I'd like to collate
> > these into the wiki and figure out what we think is achievable in
> > 2026.
>
> As an avid Mac mini G4 user I'm more interested in PPC32 at the moment,
> but on a larger scale it would be really nice to have bi-endian support
> in UFS.  We had briefly talked* about it back in 2022 but without much
> actionable details except for mention of Stacey's old code which sadly
> was never upstreamed (perhaps we should ping him about it).

If someone wishes to step up to offer to help justin maintain the 32
bit PPC bits and make
a case to srcmgr then please, by all means do! It's also easily
emulatable in qemu so
we can at least use that to sanity check 32 bit PPC big-endian support.

Right now I have my hands full with 802.11 work and cleaning up sharp
edges on PPC64.
I don't have energy to sort out PPC32 too :-)


-adrian