Availability is okay. As long as you're not trying to run a prefix
installation from AIX a almost everything should work out of the box.
Programs that are heavily optimized may fail due to lack of code paths for
POWER8/9 but that is fairly rare.
Toolchain problems are most common.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 7:04 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote:
> It is my understanding that both little and big endian work on the
> regular "linux" POWER9 machines so that you can use gentoo which is
> ppc64 not ppc64le for some reason - and I was wondering what peoples
> experiences are with this? what is package availability like? any
> problems? etc etc.
>
> Thanks!
>
