IBM Says Goodbye To Cell Blade Servers With Linux 6.15
re: IBM Says Goodbye To Cell Blade Servers With Linux 6.15
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Support for Big Endian 64-bit PowerPC (and 32-bit too of course) has already been dropped, last time I tried building Go on such a machine, the resulting binary was giving me SIGILL.
ppc64el — Little Endian, the architecture modern IBM PowerPC hardware uses is still supported though and AFAIK there were no plans to drop it. Problem is, those machines are expensive, the average user can't afford them.
@nyanide @p
That said, the demise of PowerPC is a question of time.
Cell Broadband Engine (CellBE) is coincidentally Big Endian, so it's already not supported, I doubt that Linux dropping support for it is even a factor here 🤷