I think ppc64le would become popular, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ppc64.
1. enable porting x86 Linux based application with minimal effort. 2. Some PowerPC user, little endian apparently feels cheap, wrong, and PCish. 3. Other distrbutions like Ubuntu, Redhat and SUSE already support little endian in powerpc. *Leno Hou* E-mail : leno...@gmail.com On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:49 PM, James Le Cuirot <ch...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 17:22:21 +0800 > Leno Hou <leno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Please let me know forward/steps to port gentoo on ppc64le. > > I'm not on the ppc team but I do some ppc(64) testing for Java > packages. Although these are relatively well-maintained keywords > overall, I think the team would struggle to cope with an additional > one. It's also important to note that while ppc and ppc64 can be tested > on the same hardware, I think ppc64le would require different hardware? > If ppc64le does become popular then I would suggest that we drop 32-bit > ppc first. Others may disagree though. :) > > -- > James Le Cuirot (chewi) > Gentoo Linux Developer >
