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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: guix-devel , 47615@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1618678471; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references:list-id:list-help: list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post:dkim-signature; bh=WvAzKp98B4zpuCtq793tWO8waER6p5fOGeHDqRyUKvc=; b=itg3Jo6i+Hg1oB8tkStSA9ZRcptJ9CVAUj3rFGwe95fWV977YcpjzBHpbfNOmZDMw5cRtM gWmgH0+hNFYW5nBYM4XLj5ZekDZy7Qw1yxi654n7XfRzG3mZ5hVpzK18swW5oOGxHYtseo hu8tEwOwr8c/MaPZCZ4fPNQ97DZHMABEM96C8JtfCM8lj9RMYKW4gd6dEMvrrw3i6UQYTn DS6m62cffps4PP++2RXsvF9UBg8WR7+i3Xbx+7QBEdXWXl4sCUXjAYX7D9uxqvAW3OZgH8 YrY4NwKojaxAuSM8NkW/vs7sgOgu7UEBgcxX7AY85yOainASmlB1VGLgqtkUPg== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1618678471; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=cwrrBINLpCveOnTBfvh5EHsqYqYIEk6GKjsO1ZXu4oTZKJGMoKCpUxBINyxj2WFjx6/KxA sLIAUqVR3iicSxmWhCvvQSakKvhQonPvw1Y+AzcaaFdEXCGsj7IeB34wzLHaqVs4n6c65a fKCrdsHlV8Os6zdOAl4vQ+hNCqR2vNtZuDaZOdR/9Vnr07ffKtI7m0X7UY/Hw2HV2SIL3B h136kG4w0MyZJLgAo7C6aAcI3nESc/cS5DuOpRieX3gljLoGgX4R0VubbLGiBol7DVNgJ1 fPV+2Yko7mWB6fM500Krmw75kvAE/tOu/AqwqLBIETNNWumkq06LWQCtUpLtCw== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=DQTZjnAs; dmarc=fail reason="SPF not aligned (relaxed)" header.from=gmail.com (policy=none); spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Spam-Score: 0.16 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=DQTZjnAs; dmarc=fail reason="SPF not aligned (relaxed)" header.from=gmail.com (policy=none); spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 57A4C174D6 X-Spam-Score: 0.16 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: UvVq8CXrrh2F Hi, On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 6:04 PM Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > 3. OTOH, what will be the status of this architecture? I don=E2=80=99t= think > new 32-bit PPC hardware is being made (right?), so I guess we > probably won=E2=80=99t have substitutes for that architecture. That= means > it won=E2=80=99t be supported at the same level as other architectur= es and > may quickly suffer from bitrot. > > I=E2=80=99m torn between #2 and #3. I don't think we have checked that ppc64 is unable to build this in a similar way that x86_64 is able to build 32 bit x86 without virtualization. But that may be possible, so all hope is not lost. --=20 Vincent Legoll