On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 04:05:18PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:55:12PM +0000, Fadi Osman wrote: > > Hello Len, > > I am checking with the others before answering you questions. > > But I remember one of the reasons is that we were worried that powerpc would be eventually dropped in favor of ppc64 and ppc64el... > > Well I see very little happening on ppc64 (ppc64el is doing fine), and > powerpc is doing fine. There are a lot of 32 bit powerpc systems still > out there and as I was asking, I doubt ppc64 in general is actually an > improvement over powerpc for most userspace code. > > ppc64el on the other hand is targetting very large machines running very > large data talking to little endian accalarator cards, so it makes sense > to go all 64bit (and little endian there), while I just don't see ppc64 > making sense in the same way. > ppc64el also had a lot of improvements in ABI, which they could make, since they didn't have to keep compatibility anyway. Cascardo. > -- > Len Sorensen >
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