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   nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 15:22:53 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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   https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-Dropping-Cell-Blades
   
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 15:24:01 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     @p So even if Go support for ppc64 did comeback somehow I don't think it'd have much corporate use at all.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 15:30:55 JST pistolero

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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 15:34:03 JST pistolero

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     @nyanide Yeah; I'm not married to it, I'm jazzed about ARM/RISC-V, but it does feel like the end of a kind of thing if Blue Gene dies.
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     m0xEE (m0xee@social.librem.one)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 16:38:41 JST m0xEE

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     @nyanide @p
     Support for Big Endian 64-bit PowerPC (and 32-bit too of course) has already been dropped, last time I tried building Go on such a machine, the resulting binary was giving me SIGILL.
     ppc64el — Little Endian, the architecture modern IBM PowerPC hardware uses is still supported though and AFAIK there were no plans to drop it. Problem is, those machines are expensive, the average user can't afford them.

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     m0xEE (m0xee@social.librem.one)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 16:39:10 JST m0xEE

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     @nyanide @p
     That said, the demise of PowerPC is a question of time.
     Cell Broadband Engine (CellBE) is coincidentally Big Endian, so it's already not supported, I doubt that Linux dropping support for it is even a factor here 🤷

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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 16:40:26 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     @m0xee @p >I doubt that Linux dropping support for it is even a factor here
     
     It isn't obviously, it was removed well before Linux killed off support for it. I'm just telling Pede that now with Linux out of the picture it's mostly pointless for Go to readd support for it
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     tsoifan1997 (sysrq@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 16:43:27 JST tsoifan1997

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     @nyanide @m0xee @p
     >telling Pede
     Pédé
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 16:44:10 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     • pistolero
     @sysrq @m0xee @p saying it with the accent marks is the pinnacle of human dialogue
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     tsoifan1997 (sysrq@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 16:46:01 JST tsoifan1997

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     @nyanide @m0xee @p
     putain 😎
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 16:52:45 JST Phantasm

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     @m0xee @nyanide @p The PowerPC processor in the CellBE should support bi-endianness as most of the PowerPC chips do.
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     m0xEE (m0xee@social.librem.one)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 17:38:10 JST m0xEE

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     @phnt
     You're right! However the option to use it in LE mode depends heavily on platform as a whole, e.g. OpenFirmware used in Powermac G5 does not make it possible. I don't remember it too well, but AFAIK you could even switch the boot mode to LE and… it just won't boot 😂
     @p @nyanide

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