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 ;) HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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