Re: git: 9cdb2eb66823 - main - lib: remove powerpcspe

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:07:01 UTC 
On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 7:49 AM John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 1/9/26 15:13, Ed Maste wrote:
> > The branch main has been updated by emaste:
> >
> > URL:
> https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=9cdb2eb66823e19c86cc9d2ebcf0c70c32a40caf
> >
> > commit 9cdb2eb66823e19c86cc9d2ebcf0c70c32a40caf
> > Author:     Minsoo Choo <minsoochoo0122@proton.me>
> > AuthorDate: 2025-12-03 04:12:49 +0000
> > Commit:     Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>
> > CommitDate: 2026-01-09 20:11:23 +0000
> >
> >      lib: remove powerpcspe
> >
> >      Signed-off-by: Minsoo Choo <minsoochoo0122@proton.me>
> >      Reviewed by:    emaste
> >      Pull Request:   https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1914
> >      (cherry picked from commit 907cf3e4378f9d114af41d05a59ef4a075d3efb0)
>
> Hmm, as discussed on arch@, we were going to late until after the last
> 14.x release before we actually started removing i386 kernel and
> powerpc bits from the tree.  It's probably not worth reverting these, but
> maybe hold off on any further removals for now?
>

There's a gh pull request I'll close now. I'd forgotten we'd said 'late in
14.x'
to remove bit...

But I agree: powerpcspe is the edge case here and there's unlikely going
to be any work there, unlike i386 which still has i386 specific commits on
at least a monthly or so basis.

Warner