Re: AW: debian-ports source packages

[Budweiser Gregor <Gregor.Budweiser@haslerrail.com>]

On Wed, 2020-09-02 at 10:03 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Gregor!
> 
> On 9/2/20 9:21 AM, Budweiser Gregor wrote:
> > > Interesting, what hardware do you have?
> > 
> > We have powerpc e500 (freescale) based embedded devices. 
> That's what the "powerpcspe" port was for. It was unfortunately
> dropped because
> GCC upstream dropped the backend [1].
> 
> Adrian
> 
> > [1] 
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=b31d0348ddada49453e3edaaf93a423fdc61dc79

Hello Adrian,

I was not aware of this. We are using the powerpc packages. I assume
those are more generic builds (like i386 used to be).

Thanks and kind regards,
Gregor