Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 01:39:44 +0000 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> Cc: Alex McKeever <alex.mckeever@sbcglobal.net>, Chris Rees <crees@physics.org>, FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Common Desktop Environment broken when compiling from ports tree on FreeBSD 12 RC3 (May also apply to the final build) Message-ID: <20181217013943.GA14204@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOtMX2ha94ugmbL3N8KxMoxf-nFOo3YaByBWyjoboSLfrETKOA@mail.gmail.com> References: <8A726C0B-CF1F-4580-A76D-7D75CAB1CA49@sbcglobal.net> <CAOtMX2ha94ugmbL3N8KxMoxf-nFOo3YaByBWyjoboSLfrETKOA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 06:12:35PM -0700, Alan Somers wrote: > As for powerpc on tier 1, I'm afraid that it's not likely to ever > happen. Powerpc is dying. If anybody were buying new ppc hardware, > then it would be a different story. But I predict that powerpc is > likely to be dropped than to go Tier 1. Sorry. Thank you for discouraging me and the other folks working on powerpc64. New systems with Power9 are being sold by a company called Raptor Systems in Round Rock, Texas. Several developers have them, and others (including me) have them on order. I have been working on bringing powerpc64 ports up to parity for quite some time. If you are not aware of the effort that myself, and many others, have been putting in, then you are obviously not reading the svnports@ list, and should not be speaking as an authority. src work on supporting P8 and P9 is also in very active development. Please try to keep up with the development situation for a plaform before posting about it. Frankly, I find your post insulting. mcl
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