[Debian-ppc64-devel] Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

[Andreas Jochens]

On 05-Mar-16 21:16, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:27 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote:
> 
> > This is a call for help from the 'ppc64' porters. 
> > 
> Which group?  According to Sven Luther's e-mail to debian-devel there
> are currently two competing efforts for this port.

There is only one native ppc64 port.

There are people like Sven Luther and others who try to convert the 
current powerpc port into a biarch port, which is still mainly 32-bit 
based. This approach intends to add a 64-bit kernel and a biarch toolchain 
to the powerpc port and will allow the installation of selected 
64-bit libraries and 64-bit binaries besides the 32-bit ones. 
This is somewhat similar to the i386 port which has already been 
extended with a 64-bit (amd64) kernel, a biarch (gcc-3.4) toolchain and 
some amd64 64-bit libraries.
This kind of 64-bit extension of a 32-bit port is not the same thing as
a native 64-bit port.

Anyway, the biarch approach will also need a 'dpkg' which supports 
separate 64-bit ppc64 packages in the end.

What are your concerns? Do you refuse to support a native 64-bit 
powerpc64/ppc64 port? Or do you want a different name for it?

Regards
Andreas Jochens