If I understand correctly, the rationale for not supporting power8 is this:
Bastian Blank wrote: > ## ppc64el > ``` > % /usr/lib64/ld64.so.2 --help | sed -n '/^Subdirectories of glibc-hwcaps/,$p' > Subdirectories of glibc-hwcaps directories, in priority order: > power10 > power9 (supported, searched) > ``` I read that as meaning that power9 is supported by the current toolchain, while power8 is not. Please correct me if I am wrong. So this isn't about "dropping" support for power8, it's about "restoring" it. As usual, Debian is a doocracy: we can do that if somebody commits to do that. Gerardo
