Hello Gerhard! On 1/11/21 4:04 PM, Gerhard Pircher wrote: >>> * powerpc/cell: I'm the maintainer and I promised to send a patch to remove >>> it. >>> it's in my backlog but I will get to it. This is separate from PS3, >>> which is actively maintained and used; spufs will move to ps3 >>> * powerpc/chrp (32-bit rs6000, pegasos2): last updated in 2009 >> >> I'm still using this. Please keep it. > > I can also confirm that Pegasos2 users in the Amiga scene are running Linux > (Debian) on these machines.
Thanks for raising your voice. It's nice and reliable hardware after all and still fast enough to run a recent version of Debian unstable with a lean desktop such as XFCE or MATE. >>> * powerpc/amigaone: last updated in 2009 > > I still have 2 of the 3 types of the first generation AmigaOne machines (not > to be confused with the newer AmigaOne X1000 and X5000 machines based on > PASemi and P5020 CPUs) working here. A third machine needs a repair of the > G4 CPU module (replacement parts already available). Cool. > I have to admit however that I yet have to setup an environment that allows > me to regularly test new Linux kernel versions on these machines. Especially > because there are not many Linux users for these machines - which is likely > due to the fact that no distribution officially supports these machines out > of the box (the Pegasos2 platform had more luck here). Inputs on how to > automate tests would therefore be very welcome! Are you on the debian-powerpc mailing list? If not, please subscribe and post your issues there: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/ > Given however that the Debian PowerPC port has a proper maintainer again > (kudos to Adrian!) and there is also another new PowerPC distro (Void Linux), > I would like to ask for a period of grace. After all this is just a hobby > project for me, so keeping up with the pace of the Linux development isn't > always that easy (and no, work on this did not stop in 2009, but shifted more > towards distro support since then). Yeah, I have the same impression that's the strong commercial interest pushes hobbyist use of the Linux kernel a bit down. A lot of these changes feel like they're motivated by corporate decisions. There has to be a healthy balance between hobbyist and commercial use. I understand that from a commercial point of view, it doesn't make much sense to run Linux on a 30-year-old computer. But it's a hobbyist project for many people and hacking Linux stuff for these old machines has a very entertaining and educational factor. Plus, as Thomas Bogendoerfer already mentioned in this thread, most of the old ports run just fine. I have an Alpha XP-1000 building Debian packages for the Debian Alpha port and it runs 24/7 without a hick and is regularly kept up-to-date with dist-upgrades. 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
