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Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification



On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 09:04:12AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> The debian-powerpc@l.d.o mailing list is active so I would say it
> still has some users. I have been using partch.d.o for doing some work
> on PowerPC. I posted a summary of work people have been doing on this
> port lately:
> 
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2016/06/msg00046.html
> 
> However I do agree that true PowerPC hardware is actually
> disappearing, and it is alive mostly thanks to being an ABI using
> 32bits integer for PPC64 CPU(s).

There are a lot of 32bit powerpc chips still going into embedded systems
being built today.  They are not going away anytime soon.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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