On Sun, 2025-10-26 at 20:12 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 26, Tony Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Why not support power 8 beyond 2028? It is still a good system and > > supports newer little endian. > > Because that's 15 years and Debian's purpose is not to enable > retrocomputing projects.
I don't think that POWER8 would be considered retrocomputing given the fact that it's just three years older than POWER9. The first x86_64 CPUs were released in 2003 and are still supported by Debian. If hardware released between 2014 and 2022 (last POWER8 server sold is considered retro, then the original x86_64 hardware would be considered ancient, wouldn't it? While POWER8 hardware reached EOL at IBM last year, I don't think this should be decisive criteria. You can also argue that quickly raising baselines will cause more e-waste. > I think that waldi's proposal is quite reasonable. > > Next year probably we should also talk about RISC-V, when hopefully it > will be more clear what hardware will be available. Well, Ubuntu raised the baseline to RV23 before there was even any hardware available meaning that their upcoming RISC-V releases will run on QEMU only. I don't think that was a very clever move. In the end, software should support use case and not just be pet projects of developers. Adrian PS: Please avoid posting to debian-ports@ as this address reaches ALL ports mailing lists. -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
