POWER hardware

[Laurent Vivier]

Le 06/10/2015 09:43, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit :
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 03:20:09PM -0400, Mike Erwin wrote:
>> Hi! Software developer chiming in.
>>
>> Was dropping G5 compatibility a conscious decision?
>
> It still works, but I had to start from some very old version of
> Fedora (18 IIRC?) and go through the updates.

Good to know.

>> Or just lack of interest / testing?
>
> I think this one.
>
> The main problem with the G5 is lack of support for LE and virt.
>
> If Power as an architecture is going to survive at all (which is
> *not*, IMHO, a sure thing), then it looks like only ppc64le will
> matter, so that's what I mainly need to be using.

In theory, all powerpc processors are able to work in little endian
mode. I bricked my powerbook g3 playing with this parameter in the
openfirmware.

Laurent