Hi! On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 07:56:39PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 09:43:21PM +0100, наб wrote: > > +a per-architecture value is used for the stack size: > > +2 MB on most architectures; 4 MB on POWER and Sparc-64. > Why capitalize POWER and omit PC? Other than that, LGTM. This is what the official nomenclature seems to be: https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el says > News > > The IBM POWER platform, code name ppc64el, is an official architecture since > DebianJessie. > > Required Hardware > > Debian/ppc64el requires, at minimum, a POWER8 processor machine. Although > Debian was initially bootstrapped on a POWER7 set of servers, this class of > server is not supported anymore, and you are not able to run Debian/ppc64el > on a POWER 7 processor without hitting an illegal instruction fault. > > There are, at this moment, a plenty of POWER8 machines being sold by > different companies. All the branding I've ever seen in the modern world calls it POWER, and AIUI the PowerPC branding was abandoned like 15 years ago. The debian wiki page even says > The ppc64el port is not aimed for old Powerpc Macintosh machines, > and, at the moment, there is no way to install it on this class of > machines. but wikipedia tells me the last product from this line came out in 2006, which is pushing two decades by now. Even then, apparently "PowerPC is largely based on the earlier IBM POWER architecture" so it's the same thing. Maybe when Apple had a choke-hold on the millennial mind a calling it "PowerPC" could've made sense, but through a modern lens PowerPC, to the extent it exists at all, is just a derivative of POWER I think Best,
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
