On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 06:09:28AM +0000, Fadi Osman wrote: > Hello, > I'm contacting you on the behalf of the PowerPC Notebook project > team.(http://www.powerpc-notebook.org) > As you might already know, we are a group of volunteers collaborating towards > building a notebook around the Freescale e6500 core (ALTIVEC and PowerIsa > 2.07).We are aiming at making the hardware FSF compliant (or at least Open). > We will be using Debian ppc64 as our Operating System. > > Is it possible for us to join you, essentially for the ppc64 port? > (development/bug fixing/testing...) > > We would eventually also like to run ppc64el (but from my understanding, that > would be without ALTIVEC). > Please contact us if you think there are subjects/packages we can work on. > > Thanks a lot,and hoping to be of help.The PowerPC Notebook project team. > > (NOTE: Some of us already have 32bit and 64bit PowerPC hardware running > Debian.)
I am curious why you want to run ppc64 rather than powerpc? What benefit is there to going 64bit for everything rather than just a few select things (like a database perhaps that needs the memory space)? After all doubling the pointer size increases cache usage and memory bandwidth usage, and on most architectures does not gain you anything except a larger address space (x8a_646 being a huge exception since it doubled the register count and dropped x87 and various other good things). -- Len Sorensen
