Re: bug#47615: [PATCH 0/9] Add 32-bit powerpc support

[Tobias Platen]

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>