Re: Thank you, Adrian! [Was: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good]
Hello Karl!
On Mon, 2023-05-29 at 18:32 +0200, Karl wrote:
> I would second that also. Unfortunately, PowerPC support is dwindling
> from year to year. There are only a handful of distributions left that
> support big-endian. I’m using ppc64le myself.
IBM is actually still maintaining support for both endianesses upstream
in the kernel, the toolchain and so on. Their own Unix, AIX, continues
to be big-endian by default, so they actually have a reason to keep
big-endian PowerPC supported.
Adrian
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