Le 21/06/2018 à 11:31, KatolaZ a écrit :
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 11:17:51AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
Le 21/06/2018 à 09:12, Jaromil a écrit :
dear Adam,
On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, Adam Borowski wrote:
x86 on the other hand has variable size of opcodes, 1 to 15 bytes.
This, by the way, is the biggest flaw of x86 instruction set: the
rules to split code into opcodes are extremely hairy, requiring all
the decoding work to be done twice if you want a pipeline.
Wholeheartedly agreeing with you here.
Sorry if I interrupd (nice thread!) but couldn't resist to nod louder.
Yes, but Devuan is only available for amd64, i386 and Arm!
The reason, of course is that Powerpc (which is a much more modern arch)
isn't supported anymore even by Debian as an official arch. This is due in
part to the fact that Powerpc has exploded into a large set of incompatible
arches, and in part to the lack of powerpc-based computers available to the
general public.
If there was an affordable Powerpc-based desktop, no doubt this one
would be supported. But Freescale focusses on industrial SBCs and IBM on big
servers, and not only do they steadily diverge, but both have incompatible
arches within their own set of products.
Well, not all hope is lost on that front. Devuan has recently got
access to a powerful ppc build host. More news to come soon. Stay
tuned ;)
Great news! I would have enjoyed if I were still in activity, with
the possibility to play with SBCs or big servers, but now I belong to
the general public and I can't see any desktop/laptop not based on
Intel's crap at the horizon. But it's good for others.
Didier
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