Re: Bug#857172: Please enable SSE2 on amd64 and disable altivec on PPC ports
Hi,
On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Interesting. I had heard that there will be a AmigaOS4 port but I wasn't
> aware that they were waiting for the port to be released. The boards itself
> are pretty nice though.
Yeah. I was quite tempted to get one, and replace my old DebianPPC Pegasos
II/G4 with it, but then I had to move to a different city, and my Pegasos
II/G4 server was replaced by a Raspberry Pi 2 instead, which is much more
lightweight to carry around, and actually fine for what I need it (mostly
just low bandwidth tunneling, backups to an external drive, and a terminal
IRC client)...
I also considered adding SPE support to the Free Pascal PowerPC port, as I
happen to be a maintainer of the m68k port, so I know the compiler
internals, but I wasn't convinced there was enough demand, and also I
wanted to keep the leftovers of my sanity... (Which is not a lot, I
admit... :)
> > You mean the Go developers require a company backing a port to accept it
> > mainline, or just the usual case - there are zero people with both Go and
> > PowerPC interest?
>
> Both the ppc64el (POWER8) and the ppc64 (POWER5) port are maintained directly
> by IBM people. I asked them about 32-Bit PowerPC and they said that it's too
> old for them to care about it.
Well, it wasn't that long ago when IBM was still actively selling 32bit
PowerPC cores for servers, and even for supercomputers, but of course
every company is trying to get rid of its legacy stuff - which is
everything which the management decided that it probably won't drive
future sales...
> Yeah, I know of OWB. I'm actually a huge Amiga fan with tons of Amiga
> machines sitting in the basement. I also happen to maintain Debian's
> m68k port and managed to bump it to 10,500 built packages, including
> Firefox and LibreOffice :).
Ok, I think regarding m68k I'm going to reply outside of this thread...
We might have plenty to talk about... ;)
> > And the last two platforms added to MorphOS, the ACube's Sam460 and the
> > A-Eon A1 X5000 have no Altivec, while most users are still on old Macs,
> > with Altivec. The details might vary, but the situation is similar with
> > OS4 too.
>
> I have a Mac Mini G4 for which I have been planning to buy a license of
> Morphos. It currently runs an outdated installation of Debian unstable
> as it's currently put into storage.
I happen to be a MorphOS betatester, so I have a quite wide selection of
machines. Though hardly more than one of my 15" PowerBook G4s is in use
these days, except before releases. :(
Charlie
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