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IBM Says Goodbye To Cell Blade Servers With Linux 6.15 

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re: IBM Says Goodbye To Cell Blade Servers With Linux 6.15 

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m0xEE  

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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.

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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 🤷

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@m0xee @p >I doubt that Linux dropping support for it is even a factor here

It isn't obviously, it was removed well before Linux killed off support for it. I'm just telling Pede that now with Linux out of the picture it's mostly pointless for Go to readd support for it
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>telling Pede
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MercurialBlack white knight  
@sysrq @m0xee @p saying it with the accent marks is the pinnacle of human dialogue
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putain 😎
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@m0xee @nyanide @p The PowerPC processor in the CellBE should support bi-endianness as most of the PowerPC chips do.
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m0xEE  

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You're right! However the option to use it in LE mode depends heavily on platform as a whole, e.g. OpenFirmware used in Powermac G5 does not make it possible. I don't remember it too well, but AFAIK you could even switch the boot mode to LE and… it just won't boot 😂
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