Hi Adrian The reason that I think PPC is related is that, if it is also BE then PPC users may have solved some of the compatibility problems that we experience. I realize that there's a difference in this between PPC and Sparc; but some of the PPC fixes can at least suggest Sparc fixes as long as they have stayed BE. IBM is putting considerable effort into this.
I talked with an IBM consultant at the X11 conference in Montreal two years ago. But we didn't discuss Sparc. And I didn't discuss IBM changing to LE. Is it true? Cheers -- Rick On November 7, 2021 5:18:54 p.m. EST, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: >Hello Rick! > >On 11/7/21 22:44, rl...@leirtech.com wrote: >> This thread below claims that Big-Endian is dead (2015). It says that IBM >> changed >> their PowerPC's from BE to LE. Also that web developers assume LE. > >Not sure how your comment is related to the original question but let me just >add this: > >- IBM's s390x architecture is fully supported and one of IBM's cash cows and >it's big-endian >- IBM's AIX operating system which IBM is still actively developing and >selling is big-endian > >> Adrian explained the problem in Firefox a while ago, it was complex. > >Not really. Firefox on Solaris/SPARC exists and works. It's not complex, it's >just that I am >doing the work here alone. I was planning to write an answer to this mail but >I haven't gotten >around to doing that. > >> The words of Linus: >> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/24/606 >> >> Linux Plumbers Congress 2020: >> >> https://lwn.net/Articles/829733/ > >Linus is not the center of the universe. > >Adrian > >-- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >: :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org >`. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 > -- Sorry for being brief. Alternate email is rickleir at yahoo dot com
