Re: What's the plan for powerpc64 in FreeBSD 16

Am Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 07:04:38PM +0000 schrieb Poul-Henning Kamp:
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> Adrian Chadd writes:
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> > I've got some ppc big endian stuff coming soon, and I'll go step up efforts
> > to make emulator environments "just work" again if they don't.
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> Seconded:
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> Having a viable BE platform is important, if for no other reason
> then to prevent us from faling into unportability.

For this reason, it would be interesting to do an aarch64eb port.
NetBSD has that and it works fine on RPi for example.  Would be
much more accessible than ppc64 to developers interested in
ensuring BE compatibility.

Yours,
Robert Clausecker

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