ppc64el isn't supported on legacy Motorola PowerPC CPUs or IBM POWER7 or lower, so a large swath of 64-bit PowerPC is also unsupported (POWER7, G5, etc.): https

ppc64el isn't supported on legacy Motorola PowerPC CPUs or IBM POWER7 or lower, so a large swath of 64-bit PowerPC is also unsupported (POWER7, G5, etc.): https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el For comparison, Ubuntu discontinued official support for this platform in 2007 (!), although an "unofficial" community port lives on.