XPost: linux.debian.ports.powerpc 
 From: sebastian@breakpoint.cc 
  
 On 2025-09-03 14:27:14 [+0200], John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: 
 > Hi Sebastian, 
 Hi Adrian, 
  
 > FWIW, LLVM still fully supports powerpcspe, so it's not actually a dead 
 > end. There is also some interest in the community as several New Amiga 
 > boards used PowerPCSPE-based CPUs. 
  
 Interesting that new e500 based boards are made. It is probably one of 
 the last available CPUs capable of doing 32bit powerpc. 
 But reading Amiga I would expect m68k based CPUs not powerpc (especially 
 this one). Color me surprised. 
  
 Anyway. Realistically speaking you would need 8GiB+ of RAM for a buildd 
 machine and you would need to boostrap the whole port probably from 
 scratch as of today. But with llvm only. This could be a challenge 
 already hoping you don't run into any compiler bugs as we did back then. 
 Oh. glibc. You need a C library and glibc is probably what you want but 
  https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=a053e8784940 
 0f7070cf92890e546057236c9c9 
  
 support has been removed here, too. And kernel support but if it is 
 p2020 based, it shouldn't be that complicated. 
  
 > So, unless it's really necessary to remove it, I would suggest to keep 
 powerpcspe. 
  
 This is entirely Guillem, I have obviously no saying in this. Also I 
 don't want to take a project away from anyone. I just tried to show how 
 much work is probably needed if anyone wants to bring this back to life. 
 And two key projects dropped their support. 
  
 > Adrian 
  
 Sebastian 
  
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