On 3/3/22 19:06, Tom Grzybowski wrote: >> If this still violates the policy, I'd like to know now so I can >> implement solutions that drop support for ppc64 POWER5+ >> and support hardware like ppc64le, POWER8+ that we actually do have >> hardware for and can support. > > If that happens, all of us with Power5 and Power4 CPS would be dropped from > Debian!
Don't worry, this won't be necessary. mariadb does even build on the venerable Motorola 68000 CPU which is much older than POWER5 [1], so there is absolutely no reason to assume it wouldn't run on any variant on PowerPC. I think all that mariadb needs is a little input from porters for the various architectures to get the code more portable and more robust. I have to admit, working on the code base is a little frustrating due to the many parallel versions of MariaDB but I think it's feasible. Adrian > [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=mariadb-10.6&suite=sid -- .''`. 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
