On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 08:14:58AM +0100, Matias Jose Seco Baccanelli wrote: > > Good morning Guixers ! > > I was curious to find out if the processor PowerPC e6500[1] is actually > compatible with the integration of the PowerPC architecture in progress [2], > is it actually suitable ? > > My interest was sparked by a project which is developing an Open Hardware > PPC Notebook [3], which i'm planning to purchase. > > Have a nice Guix day! > > Matias > > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_e6500 > > [2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?h=wip-ppc > > [3] https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/ > The wip-ppc branch is currently targeting the ibook g4 on my desk. There is ongoing work to target 64-bit PPC, both big and little endian. I believe that one is closer to merging, there are just some last issues about reproducibility of the bootstrap binaries. I'm pretty sure once that is worked out it'll be ready to merge. The bug report for the PPC64 issue is here: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/41669 -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted