James Wilkinson wrote:
Andy Green wrote:
PowerPC appears to be, well, not dying, but moving into non-PC niches like
Xilinx FPGAs and Playstation 3,
And it's still widely used in IBM servers. Don't forget the IBM servers.
IBM has four main server families -- zSeries (mainframes), iSeries
(AS/400 and Linux), pSeries (AIX and Linux), and xSeries (PC based).
Both iSeries and pSeries use PowerPC-compatible processors. IBM is
continuing to put a lot of resources into developing this family.
This isn't a major market for Fedora, but it *is* a sizeable market for
RHEL, which is a derivative of the same "rawhide" development tree as
Fedora. So Red Hat has a vested interest in keeping the development tree
supporting PowerPC -- all that's needed is for Fedora to keep tracking
and fixing bugs (so report any you find), and producing releases.
so I guess the main worry would be about Fedora
eventually dropping support for it in the next years.
So I don't think that's likely.
James.
That's a relief that PPC development is still continuing and probably
will be around for awhile. We just recently started using embedded
devices with fpga to replace the preceding devices which required
firmware for the limited devices and an additional PC to run the program
that deals with the limited capability scanners.
The new series runs both the scanning software and whatever was needed
before for the limited device to relay data back to the PCs of the past.
I'd hate for our newer embedded devices to have to resort to a PC type
system for the embedded devices.
Jim
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