On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 23:31:08 -0500, you wrote: >That page states "No, there will be no effect on AIX or IBM i application >environments as a result of this change." AIX on Power is big-endian. AIX is a >Unix and should therefore run Bezitopo (and Quadlods and any other software I >write on Linux or BSD) without change.
Fair enough, and I guess you should be admired for your dedication although I do wonder realistically whether the cost (both in money and time) is worth it for what is a very niche platform that big-endian is these days. I would though be surprised if it was worth the effort to port DragonFly to big-endian Power though given any realistic interest for DragonFly on Power would likely be little-endian given that is the dominant Power market (such as it is). It would also be a signficant long-term undertaking, not just for the kernel itself but the software ecosystem that is in Ports - one of the examples given in the Fedora reasoning was the Go language doesn't fully work on big-endian and the effort to fix this couldn't be found/justified.
