[yocto-ab] Future of powerpc support in Yocto Project?

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
> On 05/10/2018 10:57 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> Right now we support four architectures equally, one of them being
>> powerpc.
>>
>> Unfortunately its status as a primary architecture is coming under
>> threat as the support in gcc and glibc is at risk of being
>> deprecated/dropped as its not being maintained in the same way as the
>> other architectures are. Khem can likely provide more information as he
>> has connections into those communities.
>>
>> Right now we don't have any firm plans on what to do. What I do want to
>> ask is whether any of the members have interest in powerpc, or whether
>> we should consider dropping that support to focus on the others?
>>
>> Certainly the real hardware powerpc we have is elderly and not easily
>> obtained any more. The qemu testing is less onerous but we have to as
>> the question of whether we're focussing resources where we should be.
>>
>> Any feedback on how people feel about powerpc support is welcome.
>
> Do these comments apply to the PPC64 stuff?

I am sure NXP could provide a newer board to be used as reference.

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