Re: AW: debian-ports source packages

2020-09-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 08:45:33AM +, Budweiser Gregor wrote: > I was not aware of this. We are using the powerpc packages. I assume > those are more generic builds (like i386 used to be). e500 can't execute FPU code from generic powerpc as far as I know. At least not 64 bit FPU code. Of cour

Re: AW: debian-ports source packages

2020-09-02 Thread Budweiser Gregor
On Wed, 2020-09-02 at 10:03 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Gregor! > > On 9/2/20 9:21 AM, Budweiser Gregor wrote: > > > Interesting, what hardware do you have? > > > > We have powerpc e500 (freescale) based embedded devices. > That's what the "powerpcspe" port was for. It was unfor

Re: AW: debian-ports source packages

2020-09-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Gregor! On 9/2/20 10:45 AM, Budweiser Gregor wrote: > I was not aware of this. We are using the powerpc packages. I assume > those are more generic builds (like i386 used to be). Yes, the powerpc packages can be used as well but you won't get optimal performance. However, in case you compile

Re: AW: debian-ports source packages

2020-09-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Gregor! On 9/2/20 9:21 AM, Budweiser Gregor wrote: >> Interesting, what hardware do you have? > > We have powerpc e500 (freescale) based embedded devices. That's what the "powerpcspe" port was for. It was unfortunately dropped because GCC upstream dropped the backend [1]. Adrian > [1] > ht

Re: AW: debian-ports source packages

2020-09-02 Thread Budweiser Gregor
On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 15:14 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > [Moving to debian-powerpc as we are getting off-topic on debian- > snapshot] > > On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 06:14 +, Budweiser Gregor wrote: > > > Our hardware does not support 64bit > > Interesting, what hardware do you have? We have powerpc