Power8 EOS is 2024 Oct and it is far away from the retrocomputing system. Kindly reconsider Power8 as a baseline and I believe there are infrastructures running on P8.
Thanks, Kiruthika NV On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 at 01:16, Jan-Daniel Kaplanski <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Besides, the armhf baseline of armv7-a+fp aligns with the Cortex-A8 from > > 2005[2]. I highly doubt that archaic architecture has a lot of users > > besides SBCs up to the generation of RPi 2 and legacy embedded systems > > that are likely EOL too. Especially since aarch64 came in 2012 with > > armv8-a on the Cortex-A53/A57[3][4]. > > BeagleBone Black/Industrial/Green/... and variants are still being sold. > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- > [email protected] > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. > But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like > that. > -- Linus Torvalds > >
