OCaml ppc64 support

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 09:04:49PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 23:03 +0200, Karsten Hopp wrote:
> > > Upstream rejected this backend because they don't have the hardware
> > > required to maintain it.
> > >
> > 
> > What are their requirements ? Do they just need access to a ppc64 machine ?
> > I think we might be able to help out with that, I'll talk with Brent if you can confirm 
> > that ssh access to a machine is sufficient.
> 
> ISTR IBM even offered them a machine at the time, but they didn't want
> it.

Yeah, I offered to buy them a machine too, but they just don't want to
maintain a ppc64 backend (or apparently not a non-Rhapsody one).  In
any case I'm fine maintaining this.

On the subject, what is a good cheap ppc64 machine to buy these days?
A second hand G5?

Rich.

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