Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64
Nathan Whitehorn <[email protected]>
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| Message-ID | <5643B8DD.9060006__490.013280841772$1447278842$gmane$org@freebsd.org> |
We currently only support big-endian on PowerPC (32 and 64-bit). We might support little-endian PowerPC at some point -- Linux is moving in that direction -- but I'm not sure we have the userbase to warrant it. -Nathan On 11/11/15 00:44, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2015-Nov-10 22:55:38 -0800, Jordan Hubbard <[email protected]> wrote: >> Again, what’s the long-term goal of supporting this architecture? > The things that sparc64 give us that x86 doesn't are big-endian and > strict alignment. In theory, MIPS, PPC and ARM can give us both of > those but I'm non sure whether we actually have any big-endian > variants of them. > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"