Re: Compatible Debian PPC64 B.E for L.E servers

2020-10-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/26/20 5:30 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 05:04:48PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> I had to re-read this several times and just to be clear: You can still >> run big-endian code perfectly fine on POWER8 machines and newer (unless >> IBM removed support with

Re: Compatible Debian PPC64 B.E for L.E servers

2020-10-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 05:04:48PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I had to re-read this several times and just to be clear: You can still > run big-endian code perfectly fine on POWER8 machines and newer (unless > IBM removed support with POWER10). You can, but it seems very few people

Re: Debian 11 ppc64be

2020-10-26 Thread Karl
Thanks for the answer. Anything else would have surprised me. > Am 26.10.2020 um 16:42 schrieb Lennart Sorensen > : > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 12:34:49AM +0100, Karl wrote: >> will there be a Debian 11 release for PPC64be again or is it Sid? >> Because on that site, it’s listed as available: >

Re: Compatible Debian PPC64 B.E for L.E servers

2020-10-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/26/20 4:55 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > And it seems power8+ machines really just run ppc64el because that is > what IBM wants people to run (apparently because converting the data from > big endian to little endian before passing it to an nvidia GPU that only > does little endian made a sig

Re: Compatible Debian PPC64 B.E for L.E servers

2020-10-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 03:30:05PM -0300, Alexandre Bencz wrote: > well... > > this is quite interesting, even for use on Power7 servers ... I have several > clients that use Debian on P7 and P6 so, having a compilation that uses > the latest CPU instructions, would be interesting Right, so

Re: Debian 11 ppc64be

2020-10-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 12:34:49AM +0100, Karl wrote: > will there be a Debian 11 release for PPC64be again or is it Sid? > Because on that site, it’s listed as available: > https://openpower.ic.unicamp.br/minicloud/ I don't recall ppc64 ever being an official released architecture. ppc was but n