On 25th of October 2020 Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
Newer servers, such as Power8 and Power9 support BE operating systems, including Debian ... the problem is that Debian PPC64 is compiled to be compatible with older servers (power4 standard), it is possible to generate a release of Debian PPC64 BE, using Power8 standards (I mean newer instructions)?
What would be the benefit? Isn't it the other way round, that Power8 and newer support LE because of software availability? Most packages are increasingly only tested on LE and stop to work on BE, which is the main problem on Power prior to the Power8. Just my 2ยข. On a Power8 or Power9, if you really care, try Gentoo and compile the stuff oprimized for your system. You will see how much is optimized and how much is indeed not. I'd be glad if stuff gets fixed for BE, which may also then be fixed for earlier systems like the Power4 or the PPC970 (which is the only BE system I personally own, a Power Mac G5). Likewise, more and more software doesn't run on 32-Bit systems. I still have some nice looking 32-Bit-Macs, and I find it sad to see that the support of newer software tends to be only 64-Bit AND Little Endian.
