NetBSD ppc64 & ppc64le support?

Chris Hanson <[email protected]> Wed, 7 May 2025 15:06:25 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.ofppc,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Has anyone looked into 64-bit PowerPC and POWER support (whether big- or =
little-endian) for NetBSD yet?

It seems to me that most of the pieces necessary to bring up a =
hypothetical "NetBSD/ofppc64=E2=80=9D and/or =E2=80=9CNetBSD/ofppc64le=E2=80=
=9D under QEMU using VirtIO are already present, and the =
interesting/difficult work would be in handling whatever ppc vs ppc64 =
differences there are, and of course any =E2=80=9CPOWER/PowerPC is =
always big-endian=E2=80=9D assumptions that have been made over the =
years.

That Linux has worked for ppc64 and ppc64le for years and the GNU =
toolchain supports it well should help enormously too, of course.

  -- Chris