On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 03:12:38PM +0200, Romain Dolbeau wrote: > You remember correctly, and also G5 (PowerPC 970) are 64-bits natively > and will happily run a 64 bits kernel (and even userland) in Linux > (including Debian), so this is for G4 (PowerPC 74xx) only (and G5 > running OSX, or NetBSD which doesn't have a 64-bit kernel / userland > yet). > > [this is for PowerMacs - some newer, embedded, 32 bits powerpc also > have AltiVec, although the one in the AmigaOne X5000 doesn't].
Right the X1000 had it, and the X5000 does not (but it is 64 bit), and the A1222 doesn't even have powerpc floatingpoint. They are such a mess. -- Len Sorensen
