[Debian-ppc64-devel] I am planning to restart ppc64 ports project.

[Hector Oron]

Hello,

> I also think that it's worth considering to set "-maltivec -mabi=altivec"
> at CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS in buildflags.conf of the ppc64 auto-buildd machine.
>
> If it sets so, these ppc64 packages will not support POWER4 and POWER5 CPUs.
>
> However, I think that it is a very interesting proposal under the present situation
> giving up the pcc64 former port because the performance did not go up,
> and making the powerpc port to biarch.

Would powerpcspe port make some sense to you?

http://wiki.debian.org/PowerPCSPEPort
http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/

Best regards,
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