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Subject: Re: Porting status
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 12:30:13 +0200
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 (Vincent Legoll's message of "Thu, 9 Apr 2020 23:55:56 +0200")
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Hi,

Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com> skribis:

> To accompany the upcoming release I think
> it would be cool to add an architecture
> porting status page on the web site.
>
> The info is actually scattered between blog
> posts, mailing list, IRC logs, git branches...
>
> I'd like to have a clear status of :
> * what has been attempted
> * what is already working, WIP
> * where to find up to date informations
> * which branch to use
> * any potential performance problems
>
> For (32 / 64, le / be):
> - mips
> - arm
> - powerpc
> - i586, i686
>
> etc...

I think such a page is bound to become outdated, so I=E2=80=99m reluctant to
adding it.

Also, supporting an architecture has a significant cost (software
maintenance, hardware, CI, etc.).  Thus, we=E2=80=99ll probably only target
reasonably popular architectures, or architectures that are promising
from a free software perspective.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.