i dont think supporting older PPC CPUs is on the roadmap - those would probably need to be separate ports; and the last arch-like system (now defunct) was for PPC6 - there was a large gap there that oaken-source and ebrasca had to leap over to get to POWER9
the talos has dropped in price significantly recently though, and it was just RYF-certified last week, so we really should do our best to support it - i agree that one of us should probably have access to one - as you pointed out, that may even be necessary - in the worst case scenario, maybe we can entice ebrasca to dedicate a piece of his for testing purposes, or for building finicky packages as will be the case for any small manufacturer of new libre-design hardware, early adopters are the most important factor for its success, and i think the only options now for POWER9 are debian and opensuse - it will surely be a lot of work; but parabola is well-tooled for the task of porting and already has bootable prototypes for both POWER9 and RISC-V - i dont think that any other FSDG distros are working on either of those ports, or even proposing to do so; but at least one should exist _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
