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Re: bug#47615: [PATCH 0/9] Add 32-bit powerpc support
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Tobias Platen |
Subject: |
Re: bug#47615: [PATCH 0/9] Add 32-bit powerpc support |
Date: |
Mon, 31 May 2021 12:23:42 +0200 |
For me the best way to run 32 bit powerpc software,
is using KVM on a POWER9 system. The https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/
will run 32 bit software as well.
Tobias
On Wed, 26 May 2021 16:09:29 +0200
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
>
> > On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 10:24:03PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> Maybe it’s more readable to keep it as a bullet list, like:
> >>
> >> @item mips64el-linux (@emph{unsupported})
> >> …
> >>
> >> @item powerpc-linux (@emph{unsupported})
> >> …
> >>
> >> with a sentence explaining what “unsupported” means.
> >
> > That was kind-of my idea with grouping them together
>
> Yes, but people who just skim through that page may just see that
> ‘powerpc-linux’ is listed, without noticing that there’s a sentence ten
> line above that says “The following arches are not supported”. Having
> “unsupported” next to it should avoid that (yes, I’ve learned to be
> super cautious. :-)).
>
> >> IMO guix.m4 should either require --with-courage or emit a prominent
> >> warning for these.
>
> [...]
>
> > The problem then becomes whoever tinkers with it will have to keep
> > either a custom guix.m4 for their guix package or a custom guix package
> > with "--with-courage" as a configure-flag.
>
> True. In that case, let it go without ‘--with-courage’ but emit a
> warning with AC_MSG_WARN that points to the relevant section of the
> manual.
>
> Deal?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ludo’.
>
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Tobias Platen <guix@platen-software.de>