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 |
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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