Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:53:33 -0800 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com> Cc: freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64 Message-ID: <5643B8DD.9060006@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20151111084432.GC67251@server.rulingia.com> References: <563A5893.1030607@freebsd.org> <2AAC0EF3-528B-476F-BA9C-CDC3004465D0@bsdimp.com> <20151108155501.GA1901@alchemy.franken.de> <563F8385.3090603@freebsd.org> <56417100.5050600@Wilcox-Tech.com> <CANCZdfqO-SdjnonGzRr2H0pDon5oALsDGsmG3KOxPGRVdTbHPQ@mail.gmail.com> <39947478-4710-47D8-BAB1-FC93979570B6@mail.turbofuzz.com> <20151111084432.GC67251@server.rulingia.com>
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We currently only support big-endian on PowerPC (32 and 64-bit). We might support little-endian PowerPC at some point -- Linux is moving in that direction -- but I'm not sure we have the userbase to warrant it. -Nathan On 11/11/15 00:44, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2015-Nov-10 22:55:38 -0800, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com> wrote: >> Again, what’s the long-term goal of supporting this architecture? > The things that sparc64 give us that x86 doesn't are big-endian and > strict alignment. In theory, MIPS, PPC and ARM can give us both of > those but I'm non sure whether we actually have any big-endian > variants of them. >
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