On Tue, 31 May 2016 11:54:54 +0100 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 07:23 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: [...] > > I don't know what PowerPC hardware is available these days. > [...] > > Looking at who's participating in OpenPOWER, I think it's mostly > servers now. (There are still low-end PowerPC chips going into > embedded systems, but I don't believe Debian has ever supported them. > We require Open Firmware.) It looks like a lot of those are custom- > made for large HPC and cloud customers, but Tyan has some that are > generally available, like this: > http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/ > > There are some PowerPC systems available for remote use by developers: > http://developers.openpowerfoundation.org/explore > This Tyan development reference platform offer looks interesting. And still, the most appealing option for an individual Free software developer to put their hands on a fully functional big-endian machine is to get a PowerPC Mac, YDL PowerStation or Pegasos II from ebay and install Debian on it. IBM Power machines are mostly out of reach to individuals, price-wise and formal-customer-agreement-requirement-wise. Milan
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