Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction

["roberto.guardato" <roberto.guardato@gmail.com>]

Dear all
I would like to provide some inside explanation, as I am the maintainer 
of http://repo.powerprogress.org/

Our repository is highly experimental and it was NOT created to 
establish a new fork of Debian, but solely to try better identifying and 
possibly fixing those software that has problems under PowerPC.

As a result, we will indeed report to Debian maintainers the list of 
patch that should then be applied to the packages for PPC64 big endian.

I stress that all our efforts are targeting the goal of pushing Debian 
to provide a more robust support for our main target platform: PPC64 big 
endian.

All packages provided on our repository are natively compiled under 
Debian SID PPC64 big endian on a G5 PowerMac or a remote server with an 
IBM CPU Power8.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the Debian 
development team for their great work in supporting the big endian 
PowerPC architecture.

Best wishes,
Roberto