Στις 08-03-2017, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 20:08 +0100, ο/η Riccardo Mottola έγραψε: > Well, it is very sad we aren't release anymore, IMHO, although a > fact. > Yet i think it is wrong raising the bar and excluding many CPUs just > because it makes things easier. > powerpc was (and probably still is) a quite popular debian port and > I > know of many who run those coloured iMacs with Debian! > > There are also other non-Mac machines. E.g. I am pretty sure the > Linkbook doesn't have altivec and there were a couple of other > similar > small netbooks which sadly did not get popular compared to ARM. I do not disagree on those points, but it's all a matter of resources. We do not have the resources of testing on all those platforms, and I personally know of no Linux powerpc developer that works on a non- altivec system -except for embedded which is a different case. In any case, I'm sorry but I still believe that even more so now it's more important to let go of the older platforms and just increase our base requirements to enforce Altivec, definitely for powerpc, and possibly even for ppc64. That way, we might some day, make it back to release architecture with a smaller set of supported architectures. As it is, I highly doubt it. Konstantinos
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