#2301: Multilib/PowerPC support
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Reporter: willimm | Owner: lfs-b...@…
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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Comment(by k...@…):
willimm, why do you think that ppc belongs in 7.0 ? I've built LFS-ppc on
5.0, 6.various, and from Jeremy's branch last year. In my case, all my
ppc(32) boxes have died, except for one (a laptop, so slow and with
useless audio) which is still running with an old clfs.
Unfortunately, apple hardware tends to be built cheaply and their ppc
versions are now obsolete. If there was a consumer-available ppc box then
maybe it could be considered, but since the only currently-available
32-bit ppc chips are for embedded use, it seems pointless trying to add
ppc back to LFS (it was in LFS in the 2.x days, and was dropped by
Gerard).
Also, a general comment on the LFS and BLFS tickets you are raising - just
because something *can* be done doesn't mean it needs to be in the books.
We've had at least one person building LFS on s390 (IBM mainframes).
Doesn't mean the book has to cater for that. Other (old) desktop
architectures are mostly covered by clfs (as is multilib, but if people
want to support that I won't stop them, nor shield them from the pain of
building a multilib desktop - it's an excellent learning-experience ;-)
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