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Does anyone have any good pointers on why Ubuntu is adding a little-endian PPC port? I thought they had dropped the regular PPC port a while ago. Googling arou
by pedrocr 13y ago
Does anyone have any good pointers on why Ubuntu is adding a little-endian PPC port? I thought they had dropped the regular PPC port a while ago.
Googling around it seems the use for little-endian PPC is to be more easily compatible with GPUs. Is there really a market for running GPU computing with PPC64 CPUs?
- cliffbean 13y agoThis document lists some reasons [0] • Growing interest in running entire OS in little-endian mode – Ease porting of programs from other architectures – Ease porting of programs which access files containing LE binary data – Ease communication with GPUs • New OpenPower Consortium – IBM, Google, Tyan, Nvidia, Mellanox Also, see [1]. [0] http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/7/70/Kvm-forum-2013-Mackerras.pdf http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/7/70/Kvm-forum-2013-Mac... [1] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-2e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32/entry/confessions_of_a_recovering_proprietary_programmer_endianness?lang=en https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-...