Pasi Pirhonen wrote: >s390, s390x to CentOS-3/4 with alpha and upcoming sparc64 for CentOS-4 >is something to be totally ignored? I even offered to make ppc64, but >there seems already be project for that so i don't touch it. > > The ppc64 arch is likely to become much more important once the Sony-Toshiba-IBM processor gets into consumer hands. The new Sony playstation is supposed to use it and I have seen Linux running on at least the simulator. This is an extremely powerful chip - similar to an eight way SMP ppc. http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cell/Cell3_v2.html