Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

In addition to the debian powerpc mailing list, powerpc users are active on the Ubuntu forums. I'm running Debian Sid on a Powerbook and everything works except 3D acceleration. I don't see a need to drop it.

Regards,

Dan

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On Thu, 6/16/16, Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> wrote:

Subject: Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification
To: "Hector Oron" <hector.oron@gmail.com>
Cc: "Niels Thykier" <niels@thykier.net>, "DSA" <debian-admin@lists.debian.org>, "Debian Security Team" <team@security.debian.org>, "debian-release" <debian-release@lists.debian.org>, debian-ports@lists.debian.org, "Debian Wanna-Build Team" <debian-wb-team@lists.debian.org>, riku@debian.org
Date: Thursday, June 16, 2016, 12:04 AM

Hi Hector,

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:12
AM, Hector Oron <hector.oron@gmail.com>
wrote:
[...]

While

working out ArchitectureQualification/Stretch wiki page I

believe everything is mostly fine for

release, however I got a

personal

concern on powerpc architecture. Is it well maintained?
Does

it have porters? Does it have

users? Does it still make sense to carry

along?

[...]

The debian-powerpc@l.d.o
mailing list is active so I would say it
still has some users. I have been using
partch.d.o for doing some work
on PowerPC. I
posted a summary of work people have been doing on this
port lately:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2016/06/msg00046.html

However I do agree that true
PowerPC hardware is actually
disappearing,
and it is alive mostly thanks to being an ABI using
32bits integer for PPC64 CPU(s).

-M