Earlier than P7 is 'undesirable' to run at home for various reasons:
- P7's are reasonably fast, and are good in the 'performance per $' equation for looking at community-supported projects where you do not have the backing of someone with a corporate credit card.
- P6-based machines are power hungry monsters. They do relatively little power management and don't get a lot of performance per Watt. This matters a lot more when you're trying to maintain a community-based distro. Also, the firmware in P6 machines has a limitation on kernel size that makes it annoying to develop on/for (I will have to retest/go through my notes for the exact details)
- P5-based machines just use ancient hardware really; I don't think you should target a SCSI-based platform anymore. If support for P5 and higher can be achieved as opposed to P6 and higher that would be nice, but it might just not be worth the additional effort required.
/y
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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Patrik Schindler
Sent: 06 April 2020 16:05
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: P7 linux
Hello Yvan,
Am 05.04.2020 um 15:07 schrieb Yvan Janssens <friedkiwi@xxxxxxxx>:
One of my long term plans was to revive the ppc64be port for Debian, but my main challenge is that I don’t have enough P7 machines to build enough of a package set to pull this off.
Q: Why P7? Earlier is too slow or what's the reason?
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