On Tue, 2025-10-28 at 10:07 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 09:59:11AM +0100, Romain Dolbeau wrote: > > Debian isn't Microsoft. Debian isn't Apple. Debian isn't Google. > > Please don't learn the wrong lessons from them. Planned obsolescence > > is bad, not good. > > Still, Debian has to rely on stable support in kernel and toolchain. > Once kernel and toolchain stop supporting¹ an architecture there is > nothing that Debian could do about that with its limited personpower and > resources.
POWER8 is still years away from being removed from the kernel and toolchain. I don't think that anyone at IBM is seriously considering dropping POWER8 support in the kernel or even the toolchain at the moment. I mean, POWER5 was first announced in 2003 and is still supported by the Linux kernel and toolchain, so I'm very sure that POWER8 is not going to go anywhere soon. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
