XPost: linux.debian.ports.powerpc 
 From: glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de 
  
 Hi Sebastian, 
  
 On Wed, 2025-09-03 at 14:14 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: 
 > On 2025-09-03 04:37:27 [+0200], Guillem Jover wrote: 
 > > Hi! 
 > Hi , 
 > 
 > > Was checking last year the status of several of the dpkg arch 
 > > definitions, and whether they are in use and/or useful, and 
 > > stumbled over the powerpcspe one. 
 > > 
 > > This was requested in #568123, #575158. It got removed from Debian and 
 > > was never moved into Debian ports. Is it still being used anywhere? 
 > > If this is being used at all, I have no problem with keeping this, the 
 > > definition just seemed somewhat dead/unused to me. 
 > 
 > It was in debian-ports and kept alive/ used for a while. But feel free 
 > to remove all trace of powerpcspe, e500 and so on. No need to keep them 
 > around anymore. 
 > 
 > I don't think that powerpcspe users use recent software simply because 
 > support has been removed from gcc as of gcc-10: 
 >  https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=23d3e2d5a785867 
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 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. 
  
 So, unless it's really necessary to remove it, I would suggest to keep 
 powerpcspe. 
  
 Adrian 
  
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